• PADMAJA DHAWALE
• N C Mohanty

A Pre-Experimental study conducted to evaluate effectiveness of structured teaching programme in improving mother’s knowledge and practices regarding care of low birth weight infants in one of the tertiary care teaching Hospital of NaviMumbai. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 50 mothers who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A structured interview was schedule to assess pre-test knowledge and post test knowledge and reported practices was assessed after 15 days. The findings of the study showed the mean post test knowledge score (43.50) which is significantly higher than the mean pre test knowledge score (13.90)with mean difference of (-29.6) and SD of (1.539) and the t- test value was (136.033) which is statistically significant at p<0.001 level of significance, whereas the practices post test score was significantly higher than the pre test score at p<0.001 level of significance by Wilcoxon sign rank test. Thus it is concluded that teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge and practices of mothers regarding care of low birth weight infants.

Key Words: low birth weight infants, Mothers, structured teaching programme, knowledge, and practices.

"IMPROVING CARE OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS BY ENHANCING MOTHERS KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.243-248, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906818.pdf

"IMPROVING CARE OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS BY ENHANCING MOTHERS KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp243-248, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906818.pdf