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@article{187605,
        author = {Mayuri G. Nimbulkar and Dr Rupa Verma and Kamini Pise},
        title = {EFFECTIVNESS OF EDUCATIONAL TEACHING PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING RECENT TRENDS IN KANGAROO MOTHER CARE AMONG FINAL YEAR STUDENTS IN SELECTED NURSING COLLEGE: A PRE-EXPERIMENTALSTUDY”.},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {6},
        pages = {5827-5833},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=187605},
        abstract = {Background of the study Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a revolutionary intervention that places mothers at the center of their own and newborn care, restoring power from health systems and providers to family. By prioritizing more human-centered care over high-tech interventions, KMC is improving maternal and newborn health and supporting those who most care for the infant. Apart from its direct effects, KMC is a catalyst for overall health system redesign and service delivery change for maternal and infant health. It reinforces the strategy of primary healthcare that aims to empower individuals, families, and communities to self-manage for health and well-being. As part of the foundation of universal health coverage, KMC provides essential health care to all newborns without financial burden. These health systems are applied under this model, and in fact, this makes them even stronger by putting them in context to their populations, where there is no emphasis on sick care anymore but on wellness and optimization of life quality. Worldwide, complications of prematurity are the leading cause of death among children under five years of age compared to any other individual cause. Those preterm babies who live their first month of life are at increased risk for illness and disability in infancy, childhood, and adulthood, placing families, communities, and healthcare systems with substantial social and economic costs. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is an evidence-based intervention to improve preterm birth short- and long-term outcomes in various health care settings. Although extensively implemented, its quality remains poor. The International Network on KMC works to increase the coverage and improve the quality of KMC throughout the world through the organization of biennial congresses and workshops. This report is on the outcome of the two-day workshop in November 2016, when 92 participants from 33 countries shared experiences by roundtable discussion, group, and plenary. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a low-technology, highly effective way of managing low-birth-weight infants. It entails early, prolonged, and continuous skin-to- skin contact with the mother (or other caregiver) and exclusive and frequent breastfeeding. This humane and natural approach regulates body temperature, helps with breastfeeding, and protects from infection. KMC starts at the hospital and is carried forward at home until the baby still requires it and will benefit from it. It should be distinguished from routine initial skin-to-skin contact upon birth. The World Health Organization advises skin-to-skin contact for every newborn at birth to prevent loss of body heat, initiate breastfeeding early, and transition newborns with low or high birth weight. The practice optimizes exclusive breastfeeding and neonatal well-being in general. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is an extensively proven way to enhance the survival and health of preterm and low-birth-weight infants. As research continues, new developments and trends are emerging, like varying durations of KMC, family members' involvement, and utilization of technology for infant monitoring. Exploring recent advancements is critical to enhance knowledge and optimize neonatal care practice. This study will assist the health professionals and students in keeping current with the new developments in KMC, which will result in improved outcomes for the newborns. Final-year students of nursing are the most appropriate participants in this study because they are future professionals who will be entrusted with neonatal care, including Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) practice. They need to be evaluated to determine if gaps in their comprehension exist so they can be fully equipped to adopt KMC as a clinical practice. Though national guidelines have prioritized KMC, it is unevenly acknowledged and practiced among healthcare workers, and thus the requirement for targeted training. As trainees move into the working situation, reinforcing them with systematic packages of instruction will equip them to confidently teach mothers and caregivers, consequently achieving improved neonatal outcomes. Assessment of the impact of an education intervention on KMC among nursing students will improve their education and progress the global drive towards strengthening newborn care practices in health facilities. Objectives are to assess the effectiveness of educational teaching program on knowledge regarding recent trends in kangaroo mother care among Final year students in selected nursing colleges. To assess the existing (Pre-test) knowledge regarding recent trends in kangaroo mother care among final year student in selected nursing college. To assess the existing (Post-test) knowledge regarding recent trends in kangaroo mother care among final year student in selected nursing college. To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational teaching method on knowledge regarding recent trends of kangaroo mother care. To associate the level of knowledge on recent trends in kangaroo mother care among final year students in selected nursing college with selected demographic variable. Result The pre-test findings revealed that 74.3% of students had an average level of knowledge, 22.9% had good knowledge, and 2.9% had poor knowledge. The mean pre- test score was 12.10 ± 2.70, reflecting moderate knowledge among the participants. These results indicate that while students had basic exposure to KMC, their understanding of recent trends was limited. This aligns with the demographic findings where 88.6% had no prior knowledge of recent trends, confirming the need for targeted educational intervention. After the educational teaching program, post-test results showed an improvement, with 82.9% of students scoring in the average category and 11.4% achieving a good score. However, 5.7% still remained in the low category, suggesting room for further reinforcement. The mean post-test knowledge score increased to 20.92± 2.49, indicating substantial knowledge gain. This reflects that the teaching session helped students better understand the current evidence-based practices in KMC. The effectiveness was statistically measured using a paired t-test, which showed a significant improvement in knowledge scores between the pre-test and post-test. The calculated t-value was 19.307, and the p-value was < 0.001, indicating the results were highly significant. This confirms that the structured teaching program was effective in enhancing knowledge regarding KMC. The findings support the alternative hypothesis (H1), affirming a significant impact of the intervention. Chi-square analysis was used to examine associations between post-test knowledge scores and demographic variables such as age, gender, type of family, previous knowledge of KMC, and source of information. The findings showed no significant association with most demographic factors (p > 0.05), except for prior knowledge about recent trends in KMC, which had a significant association (p = 0.039). This suggests that students with prior exposure were better positioned to benefit from the educational intervention. Conclusion it was concluded that the educational teaching program was an effective teaching strategy for enhancing knowledge on recent trends in KMC among final-year nursing students.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {November},
        }