Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: September | Volume: 9 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 91-98
A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Educational Package on Knowledge Regarding Breast Milk Expression and Its Storage among Working Lactating Mothers
Mrs. Rajveer Kaur1, Mrs. Packia.G2, Miss. Anoop Kaur3, Mrs. Amandeep Kaur4
1Post Graduate, SN college of Nursing, Sriganganagar
2Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, SN college of Nursing, Sriganganagar
3Nursing Tutor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, Mohali Nursing College, Fatehgarh Sahib
4Nursing Tutor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, Life Guard Nursing Institute, Sangrur
Corresponding Author: Mrs. Rajveer Kaur
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Breast milk is the milk produced by the breasts (or mammary glands) of a human female to feed a child. Milk is the primary source of nutrition for newborns before they are able to eat and digest other foods; older infants and toddlers may continue to be breastfed, in combination with other foods from six months of age when solid foods should be introduced. Expressing milk means squeezing milk out of your breast so you can store it and feed it to your baby later. You might want to express milk if: you have to be away from your baby, for example, because your baby is in special care or because you're going back to work.
Methodology: The research approach adopted for the study was a quantitative approach. The study was conducted on 80 working lactating mothers (40-control group; 40-experimental group) and purposive sampling was used. The Reliability of structured knowledge questionnaires was calculated by split half method, which was found to be significant. Data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: The Mean pre test knowledge score was 9.55 and 9.075 respectively in experimental and control group. The Mean post-test knowledge score was 24.35 in experimental group and 10.2 in the control group. Further, the mean difference was found to be 19.10 from Pre test to Post test. The ‘t’(cal) value was 28.54 which was greater that ‘t’ (theoretical) value at 0.05 level of significance. Hence, the null hypothesis was rejected and it was concluded that there was a significant difference between Mean Pre-test and Mean Post-test knowledge score. It revealed that educational package was effective in enhancing knowledge on breast milk expression & its storage among working lactating mothers. Hence, hypothesis (H1) is accepted.
Conclusion: This study concluded that there was a significant difference in the level of knowledge among the working lactating mothers group before and after the administration of educational package. This showed that the intervention educational package was effective in increase level of knowledge on breast milk expression & its storage.
Key words: Effectiveness, Educational package, Breast milk expression, Lactating mothers