An Experimental Study To Assess Effectiveness Of Video- Assisted Teaching And Comfort Device On Latching Among Postnatal Mothers In Selected Hospitals, Mumbai

Abstract

Breastfeeding is the most nutrient-dense form of nutrition, and mother's milk is the best milk. Only 50% of mothers are able to breastfeed the baby remaining 50% has some physiological and psychological issues. Training and teaching have a positive impact on breastfeeding. The objectives were to assess and compare the LATCH score before and after intervention in both groups and effectiveness of both the intervention on LATCH score. A quantitative research approach with two group pretest post test design were used. Non probability convenient sampling methods were used. 100 Postnatal mothers who had caesarean/vaginal delivery and who is hemodynamically stable from PNC ward were targeted for the study. Result shows that during pretest majority of the samples had moderate LATCH score and in post test majority of the sample had good LATCH score. It shows that video-assisted teaching and comfort devices had positive impact on LATCH score. Hence H1 in accepted.