• Dr.M.Vaijayanthimala
• Ms. Anitha

Background: Stem cells have attained a large focus of attention in today’s regenerative medicine. In 1988, first cord blood cell transplant took place to treat a child with Fanconi’s Anemia. Objectives: To assess the level of knowledge among antenatal mothers regarding stem cell before and after structured teaching programme, and to find out the relationship between level of knowledge regarding stem cell in pretest and posttest. Methodology: Non experimental descriptive design was carried out in primary health center of Mangadu, Chennai. 30 antenatal mothers were selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by using tools such as A) Demographic variables. B) Structured questionnaire related to stem cells and cord blood banking (20 questions). Interventions: Video assisted teaching programme on stem cells was given for the duration of 30minutes in their local language. Posttest was conducted after one week of pretest. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: In pretest the none of the mothers had adequate knowledge and in posttest 50% had adequate knowledge and mean value of knowledge in pretest was 2.26 where as in posttest it was improved to 15.4.

Stem cells, antenatal mothers, knowledge, structured teaching programme.

"EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING STEM CELL AMONG ANTENATAL MOTHERS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.98-103, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812915.pdf

"EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING STEM CELL AMONG ANTENATAL MOTHERS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp98-103, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812915.pdf