• Miss. Radha
• Mrs. Ujwala Nandyala

Introduction: As per the WHO theme - Pregnancy is special: Let’s make it safe. Aiming at this modern philosophy of obstetric nursing care stresses on meeting the total needs of pregnant women during the antenatal period. Women's knowledge about danger signs of obstetric complications is profoundly important to enhance utilization of skilled care during delivery and to seek emergency obstetric services. The present study title: Effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding identification of warning signs of pregnancy among antenatal mothers attending antenatal OPD‟S in selected hospitals. The objective of the study to assess the pre-test knowledge regarding warning signs of pregnancy among antenatal mothers, to assess the post-test knowledge regarding warning signs of pregnancy among antenatal mothers, to compare pre-test and post-test knowledge score among antenatal mothers, to find out association of study findings with selected demographic variables. Material and Methods: In present study, researcher adopted a pre-experimental One-group pre-test post-test design. The study carried out 100 samples. A Non-probability Purposive Sampling Technique was used. Data analysis was done mainly using descriptive statistics chi-square and co-relation co-efficient. Result: Researcher applied chi-square and co-relation co-efficient. In pre-test 62(62%) of antenatal mothers were having inadequate knowledge and 38(38%) of antenatal mothers were having moderate knowledge. It was inferred that majority of the antenatal mothers were having inadequate knowledge in pretest. In post-test 41(41%) of antenatal mothers were moderate knowledge and 59(59%) of antenatal mothers were having adequate knowledge. It was inferred that majority of the antenatal mothers were having adequate knowledge in post-test. Conclusion: The structured teaching programme significantly brought improvement in the knowledge of antenatal women regarding warning signs of pregnancy. Analysis of data showed that there was significant increase in the post-test knowledge.

(Effectiveness, Structured Teaching Programme, Knowledge, Warning Signs, Pregnancy, Identification, Antenatal Mother)

"“A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding identification of warning signs of pregnancy among antenatal mothers”.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.1276-1283, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002396.pdf

"“A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding identification of warning signs of pregnancy among antenatal mothers”.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp1276-1283, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002396.pdf