Background: Pregnancy and child birth is one of life’s major events. It is joyous and rewarding as the women passes through a transitional phase, into a new life of motherhood. The WHO defines GDM as "Carbohydrate intolerance resulting in hyperglycemia or any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy usually from 24 weeks' gestation onwards" and resolves following the birth of the baby (WHO 2013). Objectives: The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme regarding GDM among B.sc nursing 3rd year students. Methods: Pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was adopted forth study. 40 students were taken by Non probability convenient sampling technique. Structured knowledge questionnaire developed tool comprised of Demographic variable contained 5 items and Structured knowledge questionnairecontained30 items to assess the knowledge of B.Sc. (N) 3rd year student regarding gestational diabetes mellitus. The reliability of the tool was tested by Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient and it was found to be r = 0.8. Results: It revealed that in pre-test students had moderate knowledge as compare the post-test. The mean post-test scores of 21.58 was higher than the mean pre-test scores of 12.49 which was significant at P-value of 0.05 level which showed Significant increase in knowledge and thus it proves the effectiveness of the planned teaching programme. Conclusion: Hence it can be concluded that the planned teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of students regarding gestational diabetes mellitus.
Planned teaching programme, Effectiveness, Knowledge, Gestational diabetes mellitus
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