A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Genital Tuberculosis among the Adolescent Girls in a selected College at Rajkot

Abstract

The improvement of knowledge regarding genital tuberculosis among adolescent girls of selected college has an important role in enabling the effectiveness of structured teaching programme as an independence nursing intervention. The objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding genital tuberculosis among adolescent girls of selected College at Rajkot. The research design adopted was One Group Pre-test and Post-test design. The study had been conducted in selected College, Rajkot. Simple random sampling technique had been adopted to select the desired samples. The sample size was 40. As a part of intervention, a structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding genital tuberculosis was provided to adolescent girls for 45minutes and the data was collected by structured interview with set of questionnaires that was administered to assess the level of knowledge regarding genital tuberculosis among adolescent girls of selected College at Rajkot. The data were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical method paired “t” test was used to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding genital tuberculosis. The obtained value (t = 11.15) was higher than the table value (p = 2.05) at the level of 0.05. Thus, researcher accepted the hypotheses H1. There was a significant association between demographic variables such as educational status and previous knowledge with pretest level of knowledge on genital tuberculosis. Thus, researcher accepted the hypotheses H2. The study concluded that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving of knowledge regarding genital tuberculosis.