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Sneha Kulakarni
Much of the women's behaviour during the postpartum period is strongly influenced by her cultural background. Postpartum maternal health care influences the health of both the mothers and their children greatly like prenatal care, the postpa rtum health care that is typically provided during the six week period after child birth is very important to the mother's health. Therefore investigator has undertaken a pre experimental study to assess the effectiveness of information pamphlet on knowled ge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers at selected rural areas, Gulbarga and objectives of the study were fallowing ? Assess the pre interventional level of knowledge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers. ? Assess the post int erventional level of knowledge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers. ? Find out the significance difference between pre interventional & post interventional knowledge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers. ? Associate pre interventional level of knowledge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers with their selected demographic variables. A pre experimental study to assess the effectiveness of information pamphlet on knowledge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers at selected rural areas of modified health belief model is applied to the study. Thirty postnatal mothers were selected by using purposive sampling technique and were assured of confidentiality of responses. The data generated was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The major findings of study were that majority of postnatal mothers 9 (30%) belongs to the age group of 20-24 years & 9 (30%) were belongs to the age group of 25 -29 years, 16 (53 -33%) postnatal mothers from Hindu religion, 15 (50%) were house wife and 8 (26.66%) were illiterate. Majority of postnatal mothers had knowledge at pre -test that is 6.66% had adequate knowledge, 38.33% had moderate knowledge and only 60% having inadequate knowledge and at post test knowledge that is 66.66% having moderate knowledge and 33.33 % having adequate knowledge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers. The study concluded that the ma jority of postnatal mothers 60% had inadequate knowledge before distributing informational pamphlet and after distributing informational pamphlet 66.66% having moderate knowledge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers which suggested that informational pamphlet will help mothers to improve the knowledge regarding cultural practices among postnatal mothers.
Keywords: Postnatal mother, Cultural Practice, Maternal health, Informational Pamphlet, Behavior problem