A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE OF POSTNATAL DEPRESSION AMONG STAFF NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITAL AT TUMKUR

The objectives of the study were: 1. To assess the existing knowledge of staff nurses regarding postnatal depression, 2. To determine the effectiveness of Structure Teaching Programme (STP) on postnatal depression among Staff Nurses in terms of gain in knowledge scores, 3. To find out the association between the knowledge of staff nurses with selected demographic variables. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Evaluator approach was used with one group pre-test post-test design, which is a quasi-experimental design to measure the effectiveness of structure teaching programme on postnatal depression among the staff nurses. The study was conducted in a Shridevi Hospital, Tumkur. Inclusion Criteria were Staff Nurses who are willing to participate in the study, who are available during the period of data collection, Staff Nurses who are qualified in Diploma Nursing. Exclusion Criteria were Staff Nurses Student Nurses who are posted for clinical experience, qualified other than GNM and Staff nurses who are posted in ICU and Emergency ward. The collected data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The significance of difference between the pre-test and post-test score was found by paired 't' test. RESULTS In this study, majority 44 (88%) of the respondents were females. Majority 20 (40%) of the respondents belongs to the age group of 25-30 years. About 33 (66%) of the subjects were married. Most 28 (56%) of the respondents belongs to Christianity. All the respondents (50) had completed Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery Course. The mean pre-test value is 8.22, standard deviation is 6.73 and standard mean error is 0.96. The mean score is increased in the post test. The mean in the post test is 32.16 and the standard deviation is 6.26. Standard error of mean is 0.89. The gain in the knowledge based on difference in the pre-test and post-test mean was found to be 23.94 (Improvement). Age is highly significant. Gender, Marital status and Religion are not significant. Intensive programme, current working area and experience in years are significant. CONCLUSION There is a statistically significant improvement in the knowledge among the staff nurses who underwent the structured teaching program on post-natal depression.