International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing
2024, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part A
Effect of teaching programme on knowledge regarding reproductive health problems among school girls in selected Higher Secondary school of Murshidabad, West Bengal
Bithika Bar and Chaitali Biswas
Aim: To assess the pre-test and post-test knowledge score on reproductive health problems among school girls in experimental and control group; evaluate the effect of teaching programme on reproductive health problems among school girls between experimental and control group and find out the association of pre-test knowledge score on reproductive health problems with the selected demographic variables among school girls in experimental and control group.
Design: “Pre-test-post-test control group Quasi-experimental research design”
Methods: Ludwig von Bertalanffy General system theory was used to assess the effect of teaching programme on knowledge regarding reproductive health problems among school girls. Probability Disproportional stratified random sampling technique was used to select 287 school girls among which 143 school girls were in experimental group & 144 in control group with the age group between 14-18 years, who were studying in class IX –XI from two selected higher secondary school of Murshidabad, West Bengal one for experimental and another one for control group.Data was collected through valid & reliable demographic proforma & structured knowledge questionnaire.
Results: Majority (59.44%) in experimental group & (62.50%) in control group of the school girls belonged to the 14-15 years age group. Majority (60.84%) in experimental group & (56.25%) in control group of the school girls were belonged from rural community. Majority (58.74%) the school girls in experimental group & (57.64%) the school girls in control group did not received information previously regarding reproductive health problems. Most (38.98%) in experimental group & (42.62%) in control group of the school girls had received information regarding reproductive health problems from their mother and friends respectively. The study findings revealed that (63.7%) in experimental group had poor knowledge & only (36.3%) had average knowledge in pretest whereas after administering teaching programme (67.8%) & (32.2%) had average & excellent knowledge in post-test. There was significant improvement in mean post-test knowledge score 29.4 in experimental group was significantly higher than the mean post-test knowledge score 17.2 in control group. The teaching programme was effective in terms of gain in knowledge as the obtained t value 33.66 at df (285) at 0.05 level of significance was higher than the tabulated t value (1.96). There was no significant association between pretest knowledge score and selected demographic variables.
Conclusions: Teaching programme was effective in terms of gain in knowledge.
Bithika Bar, Chaitali Biswas. Effect of teaching programme on knowledge regarding reproductive health problems among school girls in selected Higher Secondary school of Murshidabad, West Bengal. Int J Obstetrics Gynaecological Nurs 2024;6(2):40-48. DOI: 10.33545/26642298.2024.v6.i2a.161