Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching on Knowledge Regarding the Ill Effects of Wearing High Heels among Adolescence Girls

Abstract

Introduction: Fashion is like a circle; after some time it keeps changing and gets to the same position. Highheels are frequently worn by many women and form an important part of female gender identity, with highheels, the center with gravity shifts against a person wearing high heels and the buttocks and spine are outof balance.Long use of High Heels tends to increase buttock size. Aims: Assess the effectiveness of plannedteaching on knowledge regarding the ill effects of wearing high heels among adolescence girls. Materialsand methods : Present study is Pre experimental one group pretest ,post test design was used study has beenconducted among 60 adolescence girls in R.S. Mundle Dharampeth, Arts and Commerce college, Nagpur.Structured questionnaires given to assess the existing knowledge and the planned teaching were given afterthe pre test and assess the post test knowledge to see the effectiveness of planned teaching. Results: Thelevels of knowledge were seen into 4 categories, poor, average, good and excellent of antenatal mothers,frequency and percentage wise distribution of antenatal mothers according to post test level of knowledgeregarding ill effects of wearing high heels. The Mean score of knowledge in post test was 16.10 ± 0.70 andof excellent knowledge score in post-test was 94.70 ± 4.15.Conclusion- Present study identify the existingknowledge of adolescence girls structure teaching It was found that adolescence girls having a good levelof knowledge regarding ill effects of wearing high heels in pre test and which were significantly moreimprovement after attending structured teaching and they have been more gained knowledge about the illeffects of high heels with scientific rationale. So planned teaching was effective in enhancing the knowledgeof ill effects of wearing high heels.