INTRODUCTION:

The news of pregnancy excites a woman. She plans everything for the arrival of the new baby with a lot of care and happiness. Therefore she prepare her body to become a suitable environment for the baby to grow in while staying happy and healthy emotionally and mentally as well. Pregnancy is a creative and productive period in the life of women. Each week of pregnancy brings with it new changes and feelings that may require some explanation and support.

The mothers joyful experience of the pregnancy is not going to be always but sometimes it is associated with problems of some minor ailments that may present among mothers which cause discomfort to the mothers during pregnancy.

Mothers can manage minor events occurring during normal antenatal period, but the mothers need to get appropriate information from the health care providers, information regarding minor disorders and its home management.

OBJECTIVES:

1. To assess knowledge regarding minor disorders during pregnancy in thin and obese pregnant women.

2. To assess self expressed practice regarding minor disorders during pregnancy in thin and obese pregnant women.

3. To develop and implement booklet regarding minor disorders and its home management in thin and obese pregnant women.

4. To find out the association between knowledge with selected demographic variables in thin pregnant women.

5. To find out the association between knowledge with selected demographic variables in obese pregnant women.

HYPOTHESIS:

H₀₁_-There will be significant association increase in mean post test knowledge score in between thin and obese pregnant women with minor disorders of pregnancy at 0.05 level of significance.

H_02-There will be high significant association between mean pre test self expressed practice scores of thin and obese pregnant women’s regarding minor disorders of pregnancy and its home management with socio demographic variable at 0.05 level of significance.

METHODOLOGY:

Comparative research design was used for the study. A convenient sampling was used and the sample size was 30 thin and 30 obese pregnant women.

MAJOR FINDINGS:

According to distribution of level of knowledge regarding minor disorders among thin pregnant women (70%) had good knowledge, (30%) had average and (0%) had poor knowledge. And in obese pregnant women (60%) had good knowledge, (40%) had average and (0%) had poor knowledge.

Study shows that (80%) had poor practice, (20%) had average and (0%) had good level of practice in thin pregnant women and in obese pregnant women (73.33%) had poor practice, (26.66%) had average and (0%) had good practice.

The result reveals that the total mean score related to knowledge on minor disorders in thin pregnant women is 9.56 and in obese pregnant women is 10.66 and mean score related to self expressed practice in thin pregnant women is 8.4 and in obese pregnant women is 09. Mean percentage of knowledge in thin and obese pregnant women is 31.8% and 35.5%. And mean percentage of self expressed practice in thin and obese pregnant women is 28% and 30%.The standard deviation of knowledge in thin pregnant women is 2.25 and in obese pregnant women is 4.10. And standard deviation of self expressed practice in thin pregnant women is 2.50 and in obese pregnant women is 3.64. ‘t’ value was calculated 2.69 and 2.37 in thin and obese pregnant women which was found to be significant at 0.05 levels.

CONCLUSION:

After the detailed analysis, this study leads to the following:

1 H₀₁is accepted by the following findings. ‘t’ test analysis of knowledge score among thin and obese pregnant women regarding minor disorders. The result revealed that the calculated ‘t’ value was found to be significant at 0.05 level. This indicated a significant increase in the knowledge of thin and obese pregnant women regarding minor disorders.

2 H₀₂is accepted by following findings. The result revealed that there was no significant association between mean pre test self expressed practice scores of thin and obese pregnant women with age, religion, marital status, type of family, educational status, occupation, monthly income, language, family members belongs to health profession, gravid, height, weight, body mass index, weight before pregnancy, weight gain after pregnancy and previous miscarriage at 0.05 level of significance.

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Received on 10.09.2014 Modified on 12.09.2014

Int. J. Adv. Nur. Management 2(3): July-Sept.,2014; Page 132--133