Introduction: Globally 135 million babies are born out of which 15 million babies were preterm with mortality rate of 1 million every year (WHO 2018). Mother can play a vital role in identifying the need of the baby and providing care in all aspects. So teaching the mothers regarding care of preterm baby will play a major role in reducing neonatal mortality as well as morbidity rate. Aim of the study was to determine knowledge of mothers before and after VAT regarding care of preterm baby.
Methods: A Pre experimental one group pretest-posttest design was used for this study.60 mothers was selected by using non probability purposive sampling technique. The pre and post test data was collected through self structured knowledge questionnaire .The collected data was analyzed by using Descriptive and Inferential statistics.
Result: Findings of the study showed posttest knowledge score was significant statically at 0.05 level (P<0.05). Hence, it was proved that VAT was effective in improving the knowledge of mothers. Parity has positive significant association with pretest knowledge score.
Discussion:It concluded that VAT programme was effective for increasing the knowledge regarding care of preterm baby among mothers under study.
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2022: 6.012
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