Background-Breast milk is the nature’s complete food for infant which is hygienic, convenient, economical and protective and it is best suited for baby’s requirement. Milk contains immunizing agents and is rich in vitamins, enzymes and antibodies and it provides babies for establishment of personalities and learning readiness .Breast milk is the most valuable, renewable, easily available food for the baby so that it has to be fed on exclusive basis to enhance the fulfillment of needs mentioned above and it is the right of every child because no other food in the world can replace mother’s milk. Objectives- the study is conducted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding exclusive breastfeeding among nursing mothers. Method – A quantative evaluative research approach, pre-experimental one group pre- test & post- test design was used. 60 samples were selected by non-probability convenient sampling using lottery method. The written consent was obtained from the samples. The tool used is self-structured questionnaire. Firstly sample were selected then pretest was taken by administrating structured questionnaire after that structured teaching program was given to nursing mothers then on 4th week of data collection period post- test was conducted. Results – The post-test mean knowledge score of nursing mothers regarding exclusive breastfeeding has revealed that score was found higher mean (19.86) and S.D (3.79)
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