ABSTRACT:
Human milk bank mission is to promote and support breastfeeding by providing safe, high quality donor milk to fill a gap for those who need mother’s milk but cannot receive it. This service provides mothers to give their new born the nutrition they need for healthy growth. Objectives: Assess the level of knowledge and attitude on human milk banking among women before and after video assisted teaching, assess the effect of video assisted teaching on level of knowledge and attitude on human milk banking among women, correlate between the knowledge and attitude on human milk banking among women. associate between pretest level of knowledge on human milk banking with selected sociodemographic and clinical data variables among women and associate between pretest level of attitude on human milk banking with selected sociodemographic and clinical data variables among women. Methodology: Pre-experimental one group pretest- posttest design was adopted for the study. 40 women were selected by purposive sampling technique. Data were collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire and structured attitude rating scale. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics SPSS 25. Results: In the pre-test, 15(37.50%) of samples had inadequate knowledge and 12(30%) had unfavorable attitude, while in the post-test 25(62.50%) had adequate knowledge and 29(72.50%) of them had favorable attitude on human milk banking. The calculated paired t-test value on overall pre and post-test knowledge score was 19.08 and the calculated paired t-test value on overall pre and post-test attitude score was 10.63 which was higher than the table value (t39=2.023, p<0.05). There was a moderate positive correlation (r=0.638, p<0.001) between level of knowledge and attitude on human milk banking among women. This indicates that when knowledge increases their attitude also increases about human milk banking. There was a highly significant (p<0.001) association between selected sociodemographic and clinical data variables of education status (p=0.000) with pre-test level of knowledge and attitude on human milk banking among women. There was a significant association between selected sociodemographic and clinical data variables of occupation (p=0.030) with pre-test level of attitude on human milk banking among women. Conclusion: It is evident that video assisted teaching on human milk banking was effective method to improve knowledge and attitude among women.