International Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

A partogram or partograph has been used as composite graphical record of key data (maternal and fetal) during labour entered against time on a single sheet of paper. So this study was helpful in improving knowledge as well as skills of nursing officers in maternity areas. The objectives of the study were to assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme (STP) on partograph among Nursing Officers of Maternity areas of GMCH-32, Chandigarh and to find out the association between knowledge and utilization with socio demographic variable as well as to find the association between post-test knowledge scores and utilization of partograph. Pre experimental research design was used. Purposive sampling was used to select 45 samples – Nursing Officers working in maternity areas of GMCH-32, Chandigarh. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics at p<0.05 which was considered statistically significant. After detailed analysis of data, it was found that pre-test scores of the nursing officers were much low due to the lack of practice of utilization of partograph and its less availability in maternity areas of the hospital settings. However after effective implementation of Structured Teaching Programme (STP) there was a significant increase in the scores of both knowledge and utilization of immediate as well as 1 week after post-test ^[1].