Efficacy of organized teaching program on knowledge regarding reproductive health among adolescent girls
International Journal of Development Research
Efficacy of organized teaching program on knowledge regarding reproductive health among adolescent girls
Received 17th April, 2020; Received in revised form 04th May, 2020; Accepted 26th June, 2020; Published online 30th July, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Neetu Yada and Bince Varghese. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Background: Adolescent period includes the age group of 10-19 years. Reproductive health of adolescent girls is crucial in determining the health of young generations. Aim: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of an organized teaching program regarding knowledge on reproductive health among adolescent girls at selected higher secondary schools and to find out various factors associated with it. Materials and Methods: A quantitative research approach with Pre-experimental, one group pretest and posttest design and Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select 80 adolescent girls from Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. A Self-structured knowledge questionnaire was used for assessing the knowledge among the subjects. SPSS version 25 was used for data analysis. Results: The mean score in the pretest and posttest were 8.4±2.9 and posttest 20±4.6 respectively, the obtained t value is 21.5 which was significant at p<0.01. There was no association between knowledge score about reproductive health among adolescent girls with the demographic variables (p>0.05).Conclusion: Organized Teaching Program was effective to improve the knowledge regarding reproductive Health among adolescent girls.
