A Preexperimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Self- Instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Laqshya among Staff Nurses in Selected Hospitals
Authors: Sunil Surwase Sonal 
Published: April 2024

Introduction: Although there has been considerable progress in maternal and new-born health over the pasttwo decades, provision of high-quality care for women once they reach healthcare facilities has emergedas an important challenge.Poor quality of care at the time of birth hampers health outcomes for women,children and communities; and research efforts should identify ways to improve the current state of affairs.1Maternal and new born health are important issues for sustainable development. With an estimated annual210 million pregnancies and 140 million live births globally, ensuring that every woman and every new bornacross the globe have the right to high quality care is a formidable challenge.2The era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) lead to good progress and maternal deaths declinedby nearly half (44%). However, this progress was inconsistent across many parts of the world, and manycountries could not achieve the MDG 5a target of a 75% reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR).3The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are at the brink of global transformation. United Nation (UN) inDecember 2012 passed a landmark resolution endorsing Universal Health Coverage which was in September2015 got enshrined in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as a key target to be achieved by 2030.4Methodology: Pre experimental one group pretest – posttest design was adopted. Non-ProbabilityConvenient sampling was used and 60 staff nurses were selected at hospitals. Intervention of the study, theinvestigator informed about the study topic, its need and the importance of knowledge regarding LaQshya.After explaining the purpose of the study, verbal and written informed consent was obtained. The staffnurses who met the required criteria and were willing to participate in the study were selected. After takinga written consent from the sample they were provided with the questionnaire. The investigator explainedabout the questionnaire and ask them to complete the pre-test in about 20-25 minutes. After completion ofthe pre-test, the investigator administered the self-instructional module. The post post-test was administeredon the 7th day of the pre-test with the same questionnaire.The data was collected, organized and analysed interms of both descriptive and inferential statistics.Result: The analysis revealed that the overall Mean score in pre-test is 7.91 and was increased in post-test to13.32.83 The overall Standard deviation score in pre-test is 2.56 and in post-test overall standard deviationscore is 1.55. The overall median score in pre-test is 8.0 and overall median score in post-test is 13.0. Ascompared to pre-test and post-test values of Mean, standard deviation and Median was improved in posttest.This suggests that knowledge was improved after distribution of self-instructional module regardingLaQshya.Conclusion:- This study proves that “Self-instructional modulewas effective in improving knowledgeregarding LaQshya of staff nurses” selected hospitals.