KNOWLEDGE REGARDING KANGAROO MOTHER CARE AMONG POSTNATAL MOTHERS AT SELECTED HOSPITALS

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Kangaroo mother care has often been used as a treatment for premature or 
preterm babies. As the 21st century is in the threshold of challenging preventive healthy 
interventions, the evidence based practice of newborn care must be efficiently adopted for 
applying in the operational milieu of rural care facilities and the awareness on kangaroo mother 
care should be taught, among the expected mothers in all country wide, perinatal – neonatal care 
units.2
OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the knowledge regarding kangaroo mother care among postnatal 
mothers at selected hospitals of Punjab.
2. To find out the association of knowledge with selecting demographic variables.
METHODOLOGY: A Non- experimental descriptive design was used to assess the knowledge 
regarding kangaroo mother care postnatal mothers in Civil Hospital Bathinda, CHC Lambi, Civil 
Hospital Malout. A total of 60 postnatal mothers were taken from these hospitals by using by 
using convenience sampling. Structured questionnaire were used to assess the knowledge 
regarding among postnatal mothers.
RESULTS: It was found that 18.3% had poor knowledge and 73.3% had average knowledge 
and 8.3% had good knowledge regarding kangaroo mother care. The relationship of knowledge 
with socio-demographic profile was tested and found.
CONCLUSION: It was found that 8.3% had good knowledge, 73. 3% had average knowledge 
and 18.3% had good knowledge regarding Kangaroo mother care.