A Study to Evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome among School teachers of selected school of Ghaziabad

Abstract

Polycystic ovarian syndrome is the condition which can affect woman menstrual cycle fertility hormone and aspect of their appearance. PCOS produce symptoms in approximately five to ten percent of women of reproductive age group 15 to 44 years old the prevalence of PCOS depends upon choice of diagnostic criteria. About 18% of women had PCOS and that 70% of them were previously diagnosed. A study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome among school teachers of selected School of Ghaziabad. The study was aimed to assess the knowledge regarding awareness of polycystic ovarian syndrome among school teachers and to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding awareness of polycystic ovarian syndrome among school teachers. A pre experimental one group pre test post test design was adopted and Non probability convenient sampling was used to select 30 school teachers working in J.D Public school, Ghaziabad. Structured knowledge questionnaire consists of 30 items were administered to school teachers. Results showed that knowledge score of school teachers in pre test 29 (96.67%) average knowledge and 1 (3.33%) poor knowledge. The knowledge score of school teachers in post test revealed that 23(73.67%) school teachers have good knowledge, 6(20%) have intelligent knowledge and 1(3.33%) have average knowledge. The mean post-test knowledge score of School teachers was 20.63 with standard deviation 3.22. The mean pre test knowledge score was 11.56 with standard deviation 2.37. The obtained mean difference was found to be 9.07. The obtained mean difference was found to be statistically significant as evident from the “t” value of 14.87 which was greater than table value (2.05) for df (29) at 0.05 level of significance. These findings revealed that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of school teachers on polycystic ovarian syndrome. Findings also showed that there was no significant association between post test knowledge score with the selected demographic variables at 0.05 level of significance. Study concluded that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of school teachers regard POCS. Based on the findings the recommendation for similar study can be conducted with large sample for better generalization