“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTRURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING REPRODUCTIVE AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES AMONG MOTHERS OF UNDER FIVE CHILDREN UNDERHEALTH MISSOIN IN SELECTED RURAL COMMUNITY’’KANPUR

Abstract

AR India, with a population of more than one billion people, has manychallenges in improving the health and nutrition of its citizens. Steady declines have been noted in fertility, maternal, infant and child mortalities, and the prevalence of severe manifestations of nutritional deficiencies, but the pace has been slow and falls short of national and millennium development goal target. The likely explanations include social in equities, disparities in health system between and within states, and consequences of urbanization anddemographic transition. A Study to assess the effectiveness ofstructured teaching program on knowledge regarding reproductive and child health services among mother of under five children under health mission in selected rural community. India embarked on the nation rural health mission, an extraordinaryeffort to strengthen. To assess the knowledge of mothers of under five children To Reproductive and Child Health Services under the National HealthMission assess the knowledge of National Health Mission Service before and after teaching.In the result it shows that before the structure teaching program organize in pre-test only 10% mother having adequate knowledge, 40% having moderate knowledge & 50% having inadequate knowledge. But in post-test it shows that 45% having knowledge, 52% having moderate knowledge & only 3% having regarding reproductive & child health services.