Effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Post-Partum Psychiatric Disorders Thomas Leeja Bonny1,*, Pradhan Anusha1 1Tutor, Symbiosis College of Nursing (SCON), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune *Corresponding Author: Mrs. Leeja Bonny Thomas Tutor, Symbiosis College of Nursing (SCON), Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune Phone: 8955442164, Email: leeja@scon.edu.in
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract The postpartum psychiatric disorders are prevalent among the postnatal mothers. Nurses are the workers, whose main responsibility is to provide safe and effective care within constantly evolving health care systems, also should be alert for the signs of postpartum psychiatric disorders and be prepared to help, promote attachment between mother and baby, referral of the mother and the family for support services and counselling, and assisting the family in prioritizing and performing necessary family functions. The nurse can help the mother acknowledge her new staff and new role and to maintain support maternal role and bonding. To provide optimum care to postnatal mothers, the nurse should have adequate knowledge in postnatal mental health and its management. The result shows in pre-test, out of 60 subject's majority of them 61% had inadequate knowledge, 29% of them had moderate knowledge and 10% of them had adequate knowledge. In post-test, majority of them 73.70% had adequate knowledge, 26.30% had moderate knowledge and none of them had inadequate knowledge. There is statistically significant association found between demographic variables and the pre-test and post-test level of knowledge of the nurses on PPD. The variables showed significance at P <0.05 level. Top Keywords Knowledge, Self-instructional module, postpartum psychiatric disorders (PPD), effectiveness. Top |