Improve the Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Human Milk Donation and Banking among Antenatal Mothers in Outpatient Department at Selected Hospital

Background And Objective: Breastfeeding is the process of delivering and exposing the mother's breast milk to her infant either directly or through breast milk and bottle it to the infant. Donor human milk is one way to give child human milk when our own milk is not available. Human Milk Bank is a service for collecting, screening, processing, and distributing human milk donated by biologically unrelated nursing mothers to the receiving baby. A preterm newborn is an individual who always needs special care to survive and thrive. Materials And Methods: A pre-experimental design and evaluative approach was used in the study. The data was collected from 60 subjects: through probability convenient sampling technique. Data was collected using structured questionnaires. Results: The overall analysis of the level of knowledge of antenatal mothers regarding human milk donation and banking shows that the mean pretest knowledge obtained by the antenatal mother was 14.73  (58.92%) with standard deviation12.72. After administration of information booklets, the mean knowledge score of the subjects was 20.45(81.8%) with standard deviation 5.65. found to be improvement in the level of knowledge among antenatal mothers Majority of 11.66% the antenatal mothers had inadequate knowledge and 63.33% had moderate knowledge,25% had adequate knowledge in the pre-test. After administration of the information booklets 70% of the subjects had adequate knowledge, 30% had moderate knowledge regarding human milk donation and banking in the post-test. The overall mean pretest attitude score obtained by the antenatal mother was 41.93 (52.41%) with standard deviation11.58. The overall post-test means attitude score obtained by the antenatal mothers was 51.35 (64.18%) with standard deviation13.35. Majority 10 (16.66%) are unfavorable opinion 30 (50%) of the antenatal mothers shows moderately favorable opinion, 20(33.33%) shows favorable opinion, in the pre-test. After administration of the information booklets 5(8.33%) are unfavorable opinion, 20(33.33%) moderately favorable opinion 35(58.33%) antenatal mothers show favorable opinion, in the post-test. Conclusion: Findings of the study show that there was a significant difference in pretest and post-test level of knowledge of antenatal mothers. From this it is concluded that the information booklets are effective in improving the level of knowledge of antenatal mothers. And there was a significant association between the level of knowledge of antenatal mothers and selected demographic variables such as family annual income and also, there was a significant association between level of attitude of antenatal mothers and selected demographic variables such as area of residency.