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Effectiveness of goal oriented prenatal education on birth preparedness and complication readiness among antenatal mothers in selected community areas

Background High maternal mortality has been associated with inadequate Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness (BPACR) and non-institutional delivery in developing countries. Therefore, there is a need for proven interventions that will improve BPACR and institutional delivery to reduce maternal mortality. This study evaluated the effects of Goal-Oriented Prenatal Education (GOPE) on pregnant women's BPACR and institutional delivery. The objectives of the study were to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of GOPE regarding BPACR by comparing mean pre and post scores of experimental and control groups. Find out the association between post-test GOPE score regarding BPACR among antenatal mothers with selected demographic variables.

Methods This was a community based pre-test and post-test interventional study (quasi-experimental research design) and was conducted in two randomly selected community areas.  A total of 60 antenatal mothers were selected by using purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by socio demographic variables, self-structured questionnaire.

Results In experimental group pre-test mean knowledge score was 14.23 and post-test was 20.70. Whereas in control group the pre-test mean knowledge score was 15.00 and post-test was 15.60. As result showed that ‘t’ value 8.21 p=0.00* level which indicates significance at <0.05 level. Hence research hypothesis was accepted that it was proclaimed that the GOPE had definite impact on increasing in the level of knowledge score regarding BPACR among antenatal mothers in both groups.

Conclusions GOPE was effective to increase in knowledge score regarding BPACR.