A study to assess the attitude and attitude scores of post-natal mothers regarding the importance of post-natal care

Pages: 327-329
Pramod Kumar Saharan (Lecturer, College of Nursing Pt. B.D. Sharma, PGIMS)
Sat Pal (Demonstrator, Department of Physiology, Pt. B.D. Sharma, PGIMS)
Harish Kumar (Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Pt. B.D. Sharma, PGIMS)
Virender Verma (Senior Resident, Department of Pediatrics, Pt. B.D. Sharma, PGIMS)
Kirti Sharma (Junior Resident, Department of Physiology, Pt. B.D. Sharma, PGIMS)
Ruchi Dabas (Senior Resident, Department of Ophthalmology, Pt. B.D. Sharma, PGIMS)
Poonam Rani (Psychologist, Rohtak)

Attitude refers to the expressed feelings of postnatal mothers regarding postnatal care. The new mother may have an inadequate or incorrect understanding of what to expect during the antenatal period and following delivery. Furthermore, new mothers are not aware of various physical and physiological changes associated with postnatal period. Therefore, developing competence and skill in caring for an infant may be anxiety providing for a new mother, family members, nurses and other healthcare professionals. The sample consists of 100 postnatal mothers with normal vaginal delivery, instrumental delivery and operational delivery. The setting for the present study was Primary Health Center, Kyathasandra, Tumkur. Karnataka. More than half of them mothers were breast complications 72%.The overall mean of knowledge and attitude 76.57, 60.41 with SD of 8.77 10.21 mean score was 84.14 and 75.5. There is significant association between knowledge scores and religion, education occupation, family type, income, order of pregnancy. It shows the structured questionnaire was an effective kin imparting the knowledge of postnatal care. Knowledge deficit existed in varying degree in the Postnatal Mothers in various areas. The mothers were enthusiastic in seeking the information postnatal care was very interesting.