Role of Women in Nation Development (Book of Conference Proceedings of NIT Jamshedpur 2020) ISBN- 978-81-948050-4-5

Authors: Neha, Dr. Geeta Parwanda

Abstract: Background: Uterine prolapse is a health concern affecting millions of women worldwide. The global prevalence of genital prolapse is 2 to 20 % under age 45 years. Women in India usually hide these symptoms in shame leading to more complications. Early identification of risk factors and knowledge about preventive measures may help to prevent complications of the disease. Objective: i. To assess the prevalence of uterine prolapse among married women. ii. To develop and validate video-assisted teaching on preventive measures of uterine prolapse among married women. iii. To evaluate the effectiveness of video-assisted teaching in terms of knowledge among married women in the experimental group. iv. To compare the knowledge on preventive measure of uterine prolapse in experimental & control group among married women. v. To find out the association between post-test knowledge in the experimental group with their selected demographic variables among married women. Methods: A quasi-Experimental study was done on 100 married women from 21-52 years, 50 in both the control and experimental group selected by the Purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by using a prevalence checklist and structured knowledge questionnaire on preventive measures of uterine prolapse. Pre-test and post-test were taken for both experimental and control groups; video-assisted teaching was given only to the experimental group. Result: Maximum of the sample in the experimental group wereage group of (29 -36) years, i.e., 17(34%) and control group were age group of (37 -44) years, i.e., 19(38%). 40% among the sample present with signs and symptoms of uterine prolapse under the following category: severe prevalence 7(17.5%), moderate 19(47.5%) and low prevalence 14(35%). The mean difference between pre-test knowledge and post-test knowledge (7.70). The‘t’ value of (18.67) for df (49) was found to be statistically significant at 0.05 level.

Keywords: Uterine prolapse, Prevalence, Video assisted teaching.