A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Skills Competency Program in Term of Knowledge and Practice Regarding Essential New Born Care Among Anms Working in Selected Community Health Centres at Meerut, Up.

Abstract Background Essential new-born care is the care required by all neonates (first 28 days of life) whether they are born healthy, small or unwell. It includes appropriate preventive care, routine care, transition and care of sick and small babies. The success with which mortality and morbidity are prevented will depend to a large extent on the commitment and expertise of the health workers responsible for new-born care. Essential new born care includes: Immediate care at birth (delayed cord clamping, thorough drying, assessment of breathing, skin-to-skin contact, early initiation of breastfeeding) Thermal care. Resuscitation when needed. Support for breast milk feeding. Statement of the Problem : A Study to assess the effectiveness of skills competency program in term of knowledge and practice regarding Essential New Born care among ANMs working in selected community health centres at Meerut, UP. Objectives: 1. To develop the skill competency program regarding essential new born care. 2. To assess the knowledge and practice regarding essential new born care among ANMs in experimental group before and after administration of skill competency programme. 3. To compare the knowledge and practice score of skill competency programme regarding essential new care among ANMs. 4. To find out the association between post–test score regarding skill competency programme with demographic variables. Methods : A quasi experimental study was done on 60 Community health centres ANMs, 30 in both experimental and control group selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by using self-Structured questionnaire on Essential new born care and self-Structured questionnaire on Essential new born care pre- test and post-test was taken from both experimental and control group, pre-test and post-test was taken from both experimental and control group, skill competency programme was given only in experimental group Result : Finding revealed that administered of video assisted teaching to experimental group improve the knowledge regarding essential new born care among ANMs the knowledge score of participants in pre- test majority of ANMs majority of samples 19(63%) had average knowledge, 6(20%) of the sample had good knowledge, 5(17%) of the sample had poor knowledge. In post-test data represented that majority of samples 20(67%) had good knowledge, 10(33%) of the sample had average knowledge. To improve the level of practice among ANM’s the practice score of participants in pre- test majority of ANMs majority of samples 27(90%) had average practice, (20%) of the sample had good practice, 5(17%) of the sample had poor practice. In post-test data represented that majority of samples 20(67%) had good practice, 10(33%) of the sample had average practice. Conclusion: The study concluded that skill competency programme was effective to improve the knowledge and practice regarding essential new born care among ANMs in selected community health centres ,Meerut .