Background: Women are potentially susceptible to complication during the postpartum period which may affect their physical mental and social wellbeing. Postnatal exercise is administered in routine clinical practice for early mobility and postnatal recovery. Post natal exercise administered during immediate postpartum period helps improve the quality of life by improving physical mental and general wellbeing. Aim of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding postnatal exercise among postnatal mother in the mahatma gandhi medical college and hospital, Jaipur. Method: In this study the research approach was pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design was applied. Total 50 samples selected by purposive sampling technique. The intervention Structured Teaching Programme was introduced to the group after the pre test. Knowledge was assessed by self structured questionnaire and practice assessed by observation checklist tool before and after the intervention. Results: The result revealed that mean pre test score of knowledge was 9.940±2.084 which was increased to 20.48±2.735.The mean difference was 10.54. the calculated ‘t’ value t-critical one tail- 22.15 and t-critical two tail-2.010. P value<0.0001 is less than 0. 005 The null hypothesis H0 is rejected and research hypothesis is accepted. Conclusion: The study concluded that, structured teaching programme on about the postnatal exercise should be improve the knowledge of postnatal mother that may help them deal better the postnatal complication.
Effectiveness, Structured Teaching Programme, Post natal Care, Knowledge, exercise, Episiotomy
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