WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Sethulakshmi S.* and P. Swarnalatha

ABSTRACT

Parenthood is a dream of every human being. The actual desire for parenting is a step in the direction of creating family. Infertility means the lack of ability to get pregnant after a year of consistent unprotected sexual intercourse. Also it has vast emotional liability on the childless partner, specifically in female, and may cause sadness, suicidal thoughts and mental illness. Purpose of this study was to assess the awareness regarding infertility among eligible couples in selected community at Bangalore. 50 eligible couple were carefully chosen by using non probability sampling method. Structured questionnaire and checklist were made to evaluate the knowledge of eligible couples about infertility. Pre experimental method was used in this study. Design used to gather data was one group pre-test and post-test.Pre-test was conducted using structured questionnaire. Teaching plan was administered by using charts as well as discussion. Post- test was carried out to the same eligible couples by using the same instrument after 7 days. The data has been analysed and interpreted according to the objectives and hypothesis of the study. Paired ‘t’ value of the post test of the eligible couples t = 2.01 were find to be significant at P < 0.05.There was remarkable variance among the knowledge scores of pre-test and post-test of the eligible couples on infertility after administering structured teaching programme. This indicates that STP on infertility among eligible couples was effective.