<![CDATA[Background: In a family, a spouse is the most important and liable family member to take care of thefamily members. He is the one who might take care of his wife in pregnancy period. Therefore, he mustbe knowledgeable regarding antenatal care of his wife in pregnancy, but in India, alas! There is no muchinvolvement of husband in taking care of an antenatal women during pregnancy. Moreover, pregnant womanis a care taker of a family and they are majorly neglected, it is happening since decades due to lack ofrespect for a daughter-in –law in family.OBJECTIVES: 1. to evaluate the knowledge of pregnant woman’sspouse about antenatal care. 2. To assess the attitude of antenatal mother’s spouse regarding Antenatal care.3. To assess effectiveness of antenatal care on IEC package the knowledge and attitude among the spouseof antenatal mother. Methodology: In this study researchers have adopted pre experimental one groupPre- test post-test design. It evaluates and assess the effectiveness of knowledge and attitude of antenatalcare IEC package among antenatal mother’s spouses. The researchers also described the association amonglevel of knowledge as well as attitude using personal characteristics included in this study was age, religion,education, family income and no of children. The sample size is 100. Non probability purposive sampletechnique is used in present study. RESULT: In this section the mainconclusions of the present studyhave been discuss as follows. The posttest knowledge score showed at higher level than the pretest score.The mean post test score was greater than the mean pretest score. Thecalculated t-test statistic value andCorresponding p-value are small and the posttest attitude score was greater than the mean pretest score.Conclusion: It indicates that the IEC package was effective method for enlightening the knowledge andattitude of mother’s spouses about antenatal care.]]>
