Exploring the Incidence and the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Minor Disorders of Pregnancy and its Management among Primigravida Mothers in a Selected Rural Areas in Dharmapuri Dt.

Every pregnancy is a unique experience for the women and each pregnancy that the women experience will be new and uniquely different. Reproduction though considered to be an usual process in the life of a women, is stressful and can lead to the risk and threats in reproductive age group women unless, appropriate measures are taken in time, it may reach its peak and endanger the life of mothers. A study conducted by 'Haubran' recommended that discomforts among antenatal mothers are common and there is a need to develop and implement planned education in comfort measures specifically to each trimester. He also indicated assessment of discomforts serves as the basis for instruction to initiate a change in patient's behavior to improve, maintain and restore equilibrium.