Effectiveness of Education Program on Knowledge Regarding Gestational Diabetes among Nurses.

Background: India has got highest number of the cases with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), In India, prevalence of GDM is about 16.55%, common among young girls. Objectives: The main objective of this study was to assess the effect of education programme on gestational diabetes among nurses by assessing the nurse's knowledge before and after educational programme. Methods and materials: One group pre and pre experimental one group pre and post-test research design was developed and implemented. Setting of the study was municipal corporate and private hospitals of Pune city was randomly selected. The total sample size was 160 nurses, they were selected by using simple random sampling technique. A self-administered structured on knowledge regarding gestational diabetes was developed and administered. Results: Mean values of pre-test regarding GDM among nurses was 14 and the score was enhanced to 15.4 in post-test. In this study, t-value was 3.1 with 159 degrees of freedom. P-value matching to this evaluation was 0.00, it was less than 0.05. The awareness program on GDM was proved to be meaningfully effective in refining the awareness of nurses regarding gestational diabetes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]