2024, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part C

author(s)
Siddharth Shekhar Kushwaha, Prerna Pandey and Manoj Swarnkar

abstract
Preterm babies, born before completing 37 weeks of gestation, face several challenges in their early days of life due to their underdeveloped organs and systems. One significant concern is their immature lungs, which often lack the surfactant necessary to maintain proper lung function. Surfactant therapy is a critical intervention used to provide surfactant to preterm infants, ensuring their lungs can expand fully and effectively exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide. Proper administration of surfactant therapy requires expertise and knowledge among healthcare professionals, particularly staff nurses who play a crucial role in the care of preterm babies. In this study a quantitative evaluative research approach was used and pre-experimental one group pretest-post-test design was used to find out the effectiveness of video assisted teaching program on knowledge regarding strategies of surfactant therapy among staff nurses of paediatric department. The sample consist of 60 staff nurses. They were chosen by convenient purposive sampling technique. The study was conducted in selected hospitals of Indore city. The knowledge gained through the video assisted teaching program was good and significant (Z= -6.761, p=0.001 two tailed) difference between the mean post-test (X₂ = 15.82) and pretest knowledge score (X₁ = 5.60).