A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Pre-Menstrual Syndrome and its Management among Adolescent Girls in selected school at Sanjeli

Abstract

The present study assessed the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding pre-menstrual syndrome and its management among the adolescent girls at selected school in rural area. The design was adopted by the investigator in this study was pretest and posttest quasi experimental design. The conceptual framework is based on the general system theory by Von Bertalanffy ludwing (1968). A total of 60 adolescent girls were selected from the school by using convenient sampling technique. The purpose of the study was explained to the students and consent was taken from all the participants. A structured pretest questionnaire related to pre-menstrual syndrome were asked to them for scoring knowledge. Data was analyzed descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequencies and percentages. The association between effectiveness of planned teaching programme will be analyzed by t-test. in pre-test 52(86.67%) of adolescent’s girls were having inadequate level of knowledge and 8(13.33%) of adolescent’s girls were having moderate level of knowledge. While in post-test 6(10%) had inadequate level of knowledge, 36(60%) had moderate level of knowledge, and 18(30%) has adequate level of knowledge. The effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding pre-menstrual syndrome and its management was revealed in the post-test that there was significance improvement in knowledge with administration of structured teaching programme. The obtained “t-test” value for the level of knowledge on pre-menstrual syndrome and its management 18.86 that was highly significance at p<0.05 level the hypothesis was accepted. The study found that adolescent girls had inadequate knowledge regarding pre-menstrual syndrome and its management in pretest. After the structured teaching programme on pre-menstrual syndrome there was a significant improvement in knowledge of the adolescent girls regarding pre-menstrual syndrome and its management. The study concluded that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of the adolescent girls regarding pre-menstrual syndrome and its management.