Introduction: Globalization and modernization made people more fast and forward but the man still follows male female discrimination. Science is a gift for mankind. It has increased the life expectancy of a man but the misuse of the same science in female foceticide has been committed by using the modern technology. 1Because of the lack of awareness and some perceived barriers this has been practiced much in both rural and urban areas. So it is necessary to think about female foeticide issue and education to the antenatal mothers is a prime responsibility of the nurses therefore the researcher felt the need to conduct the study on evaluating the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on female foeticide for antenatal mothers. Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on awareness and perception of pregnant women regarding female foeticide. Methodology: Simple random sampling technique was used to select 60 pregnant women attending ANC OPD. Structured awareness questionnaire and five point likert scale were used to assess the awareness and perception of pregnant women. Planned teaching programme was administered on the same day after pretest and after 7 days post test was done. Results: Data obtained were tabulated and analyzed in terms of objectives of the study using descriptive and inferential statistics the finding of the study showed that mean pretest 14.50 ±3.70 of awareness increased in mean post test 26.53±1.40 and mean pretest111.75±9.99 of perception of pregnant women is increased in means post test 129.8±13.38 after intervention of planned teaching programme. It showed that the planned teaching programme was effective in this study.
Key words Effectiveness; Evaluate; Planned teaching programme; awareness and perception; female foeticide; registered pregnant women.