FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[001] The present invention relates to the field of medical science, and more particularly, the present invention relates to the study of the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers.

BACKGROUND FOR THE INVENTION:
[002] The following discussion of the background of the invention is intended to facilitate an understanding of the present invention. However, it should be appreciated that the discussion is not an acknowledgment or admission that any of the material referred to is published, known, or part of the common general knowledge in any jurisdiction as of the priority date of the application. The details provided herein the background if belongs to any publication is taken only as a reference for describing the problems, in general terminologies or principles or both of science and technology in the associated prior art.
[003] Pregnancy is the fundamental occasion in the women’s life. It requires independent consideration from the season of origination to the postpartum period. Pregnancy can be unique in relation to lady to lady, and not withstanding for a similar mother starting with one pregnancy then onto the next. A few manifestations of pregnancy keep going for half a month or months, while different inconveniences are transitory or don't influence all ladies. For a pregnant lady, feeling another life creating inside her body is a breaking background, despite the fact that she may not generally feel her best at certain focuses on route.
[004] The world health organization portrays the post-partum period as the most basic but almost dismissed stage in the lives of mothers and infants, most death happen during the postnatal period. It is nevertheless important that all postnatal women still have access to, and appropriately receive, postpartum care. Therefore, the health assistant must be capable to identify signs of some degree of postpartum difficulties that require further investigation and discuss the future management of these with the woman.
[005] In the light of the foregoing, there is a need for study on the knowledge and practice regarding prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers that overcomes problems prevalent in the prior art.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION:
[006] Some of the objects of the present disclosure, which at least one embodiment herein satisfies, are as follows.
[007] The principal object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitals.
[008] An object of the present invention is to provide a study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitalsfor assessing the level of knowledge of post-natal mothers regarding prevention of postpartum complications.
[009] Another object of the present invention is to provide a study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitals for assessing the practice of post-natal mothers regarding prevention of postpartum complications.
[010] Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitalsfor finding the correlation between knowledge score and practice score of post-natal mothers regarding prevention of postpartum complications.
[011] Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitals for finding association between level of knowledge with their selected demographic variables.
[012] Further object of the present invention is to provide a study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitals for finding association between level of practice with their selected demographic variables.
[013] Other objects and advantages of the present disclosure will be more apparent from the following description, which is not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
[014] The present invention relates to a study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitals.
[015] According to one aspect of our invention, pregnancy is a vital event in women’s life. It requires singular attention from the time of conception to the post-natal period.
[016] In another aspect of the invention, complications in early post-natal periods may lead to many issues. These problems not only lead to various short-term and long term but also cause mortality.
[017] In another aspect of the invention, a descriptive study is conducted on 120 post-natal mothers by a convenient sampling technique.
[018] In another aspect of the invention, the determination of this study is informed and written approval is taken from the applicants. Data are collected by administering tools and need-based teaching is provided.
[019] In another aspect of the invention, the tool is organized thorough an investigator. This study outcome revealed that the overall mean knowledge score and practice score is 22.77 ± 4.60 And 15.55 ±1.54.
[020] In another aspect of the invention, most (50.83%) of post-delivered women had good knowledge and the majority (91.66%) of post-natal mothers had good practices regarding the prevention of postpartum complications.
[021] In another aspect of the invention, from the study findings, it could be calculated that post-delivered women had good knowledge and good practice about the prevention of postpartum complications.
[022] In another aspect of the invention, on the basis of knowledge and practice of post-delivered women, need-based teaching is provided regarding the prevention of postpartum problems.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS:
[023] Reference will be made to embodiments of the invention, examples of which may be illustrated in accompanying figures. These figures are intended to be illustrative, not limiting. Although the invention is generally described in the context of these embodiments, it should be understood that it is not intended to limit the scope of the invention to these particular embodiments.
[024] Table 1 shows frequency & percentage distribution of profile of the post-natal mothers, n=120 in accordance with the present invention.
[025] Table 2 shows Mean, SD Range, Median and Mean percentage of level of knowledge regarding prevention of post-partum complications in accordance with the present invention.
[026] Table 3 shows Mean, SD Range, Median and Mean percentage of level of practice regarding prevention of postpartum complications, n=120 in accordance with the present invention.
[027] Figure 1 Illustrates most (50.83%) of post delivered ladies had good knowledge, (40%) of them had very good knowledge and only (9.16%) are having average knowledge regarding prevention of postpartum complications in accordance with the present invention.
[028] Figure 2 illustrates majority (91.66%) post delivered ladies had good level of practice, only (8.33%) of them having satisfactory level of practices regarding prevention of postpartum complications in accordance with the present invention.
[029] Table 4 for correlation between knowledge score and practice score of post-natal mothers about prevention of postpartum complications, n=120 in accordance with the present invention.
[030] Table 5 for association among level of knowledge with nominated demographic profile of post-natal women in accordance with the present invention.
[031] Table 6 for association among level of practice of post delivered ladies regarding prevention of postpartum complications with the selected demographic variables. n=120 in accordance with the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS:
[032] While the present invention is described herein by way of example using embodiments and illustrative drawings, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention is not limited to the embodiments of drawing or drawings described and are not intended to represent the scale of the various components. Further, some components that may form a part of the invention may not be illustrated in certain figures, for ease of illustration, and such omissions do not limit the embodiments outlined in any way. It should be understood that the drawings and the detailed description thereto are not intended to limit the invention to the particular form disclosed, but on the contrary, the invention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claim.
[033] As used throughout this description, the word "may" is used in a permissive sense (i.e. meaning having the potential to), rather than the mandatory sense, (i.e. meaning must). Further, the words "a" or "an" mean "at least one” and the word “plurality” means “one or more” unless otherwise mentioned. Furthermore, the terminology and phraseology used herein are solely used for descriptive purposes and should not be construed as limiting in scope. Language such as "including," "comprising," "having," "containing," or "involving," and variations thereof, is intended to be broad and encompass the subject matter listed thereafter, equivalents, and additional subject matter not recited, and is not intended to exclude other additives, components, integers, or steps. Likewise, the term "comprising" is considered synonymous with the terms "including" or "containing" for applicable legal purposes. Any discussion of documents, acts, materials, devices, articles, and the like are included in the specification solely for the purpose of providing a context for the present invention. It is not suggested or represented that any or all these matters form part of the prior art base or are common general knowledge in the field relevant to the present invention.
[034] In this disclosure, whenever a composition or an element or a group of elements is preceded with the transitional phrase “comprising”, it is understood that we also contemplate the same composition, element, or group of elements with transitional phrases “consisting of”, “consisting”, “selected from the group of consisting of, “including”, or “is” preceding the recitation of the composition, element or group of elements and vice versa.
[035] The present invention is described hereinafter by various embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein reference numerals used in the accompanying drawing correspond to the like elements throughout the description. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiment set forth herein. Rather, the embodiment is provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. In the following detailed description, numeric values and ranges are provided for various aspects of the implementations described. These values and ranges are to be treated as examples only and are not intended to limit the scope of the claims. In addition, several materials are identified as suitable for various facets of the implementations. These materials are to be treated as exemplary and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
[036] The present invention relates to a study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitals.
[037] Post-natal complications add to a great deal of maternal grimness. These intricacies not just prompt different present moment and long haul, yet additionally purpose mortality. Around 6,00,000 ladies pass on, worldwide because of pregnancy-related entanglements, and 99% of these passing happen in creating nations. Additionally, over half of these cases have been accounted for during the post delivered difficulties.3 As per WHO, maternal dismalness is unsatisfactory high. In 2010, 2,87,000 ladies passed on during and following pregnancy and labor. Somewhere in the range of 1990 and 2015, maternal mortality overall dropped by around 44 %. (WHO) 3 every day in 2015, around 830 ladies kicked the bucket because of complexities of pregnancy and labor.
[038] In the present study quantitative approach is used. Convenient sampling method is used to recruit 120 post delivered women from Himalayan hospital Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Data are collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire; self- reported practice check list and demographic details are obtained using baseline data. On the day of data collection need based teaching programmeis provided to the participants. Tools are structured knowledge questionnaire that contains total 32 questions related to prevention of post-partum complications. Each question had four alternatives among which only one is correct response. The scoring is done as right answer will get one mark (1) and wrong answer got zero (0) mark. Where subject is asked for right response and researcher put tick mark (v) against the answer given by subjects. The maximum score is 32. Self-reported practice check list consists of 20 items connected to the preparation of post delivered ladies regarding prevention of postpartum complications. These practices are responsible for the early recovery and prevention of infection. Each correct response had one point.in which yes consist as 1 and no consist 0 mark.
[039] Data presented in table no -1illustrates demographic variables of applicants. Half of the study applicants 50% are between 19-26 years of age group. Most of the applicants 50.83% are having above secondary education. Majority of the applicants are Hindu 86.66%. more than half of the participants are home maker 95%. Most of the participants 79.17% had monthly family income between 5000-20,000 rs. Most of the participants 52.5% are residing in rural area. Most of the participants 55.84% are from nuclear family. Most of the participants 60.83% arenon-vegetarian. Most of the participants 79.17% are married for 8 months to 7 years. Most of the participants 58.34% has undergone normal vaginal delivery. Most (53.34%) of the mothers are multipara. Most of the participants (43.34%) is having 1 child. half of (50.83%) participants are having 2ndday and (49.16) are having 3rd day. Majority (95%) of study participants is not having previous knowledge and only (5%) are got the knowledge from health workers, mass media and peer group complications. Maximum score 32. Lowest gained score is 9 and the highest range of score is 31. The mean value is 22.77 ± 4.60. Mean % for knowledge score is 71.15%.
[040] Table no 3: Data accessible in Table no 6 displays that in level of practice scores regarding prevention of postpartum problems. Maximum score is 20. The lowest range of obtained score is 9 and the highest range of value is 19. The mean value is 15.55 ±1.54. Mean % for knowledge value is 77.75%, n=120.
[041] Section– C: Correlation between knowledge score and practice score of post-natal women regarding prevention of postpartum complications.
[042] Table 4: Correlation between knowledge score and practice score of post-natal mothers about prevention of postpartum complications, n=120.
[043] Table no 5-The data despite that association of level of knowledge with nominated demographic profiles. There are statically significant association found with the level of knowledge and education and duration of marriage and all other demographic profiles such as oldness, religion, living area, nutritive habit, job, periodic salary, type of household, parity, type of delivery, no of children, post-natal day, and previous knowledge about prevention of postpartum problems have no significant association with the level of knowledge. Hence it could be influenced that there is an impact of education and duration of marriage on the knowledge among post-natal mothers. Hence it can be interpreted that the null hypothesis (H0) is partially acknowledged and the research hypothesis (H1) is rejected.
[044] Table no 6-The data despite that association of level of practice with nominated baseline data. There are statically significant association found with level of knowledge and education and type of delivery and all other baseline data such as Oldness, religion, living area, nutritional habit, occupation, periodic income, , parity, duration of marriage, no of children, post-natal day, and previous knowledge about prevention of postpartum problems have no significant association with the level of practice. Hence it could be influenced that there is an impact of education and type of delivery on the practice among post-natal mothers. Hence it can be interpreted that the null hypothesis (H0) is partially accepted and the research hypothesis (H1) is rejected.
[045] The study findings illustrate that most (50.83%) of the postnatal mothers had good knowledge and majority (91.66%) of postnatal mothers had good practice regarding prevention of post-partum complications. There is weak correlation between knowledge and practice score of post delivered ladies about prevention of post-partum complications. In association, education and duration of marriage are having significant association with the knowledge score at the level p<0.05.
[046] Based on finding of the study, the researcher observed that there are good knowledge and practice of post-natal mothers regarding prevention of postpartum complications and need based teaching are emphasized on the lacking areas or quarries raised by post-natal mothers. The interventional programme regarding prevention of postpartum complications can be planned to minimize the complications and to improve the maternal health among post delivered ladies.
[047] The student nurse posted in the obstetric wards & community area can educate the post-natal mothers regarding minor elements of postpartum complications and its prevention.
[048] The disclosure has been described with reference to the accompanying embodiments herein and the various features and advantageous details thereof are explained with reference to the non-limiting embodiments in the following description. Descriptions of well-known components and processing techniques are omitted so as to not unnecessarily obscure the embodiments herein.
[049] The foregoing description of the specific embodiments so fully revealed the general nature of the embodiments herein that others can, by applying current knowledge, readily modify and/or adapt for various applications such specific embodiments without departing from the generic concept, and, therefore, such adaptations and modifications should and are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments. It is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology employed herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. Therefore, while the embodiments herein have been described in terms of preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the embodiments herein can be practiced with modification within the scope of the embodiments as described herein.

We Claim:

1) A study on the knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of postpartum complications among post-natal mothers with a view to providing need-based teaching in selected hospitals; wherein the study is conducted on 120 post-natal mothers by a convenient sampling technique; and the data is collected by administering tools and need-based teaching is provided.
2) The study as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tool is organized thorough an investigator.
3) The study as claimed in claim 1, wherein the study outcome revealed that the overall mean knowledge score and practice score is 22.77 ± 4.60 And 15.55 ±1.54.
4) The study as claimed in claim 1, wherein the most (50.83%) of post-delivered women had good knowledge and the majority (91.66%) of post-natal mothers have good practices regarding the prevention of postpartum complications.
5) The study as claimed in claim 1, wherein it is calculated that post-delivered women have good knowledge and good practice about the prevention of postpartum complications.
6) The study as claimed in claim 1, wherein the basis of knowledge and practice of post-delivered women, need-based teaching is provided regarding the prevention of postpartum problems.