A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PREVENTION OF SUICIDE AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Author Name: 1Mr. Tehal Singh Dhillon, 2Ms. Amarjit Kaur Singhera, 3Mrs. Ravinder Kaur

Volume: 01 &  Issue:

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434, DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2020-15729285/

Affiliation:

¹ Lecturer, Sidhu College of Nursing, Doraha, Punjab

²Professor cum Vice Principal Dr. Shyam Lal Thapar College of Nursing Moga, Punjab

³Associate Professor cum Vice Principal Mata Gujri Institute of Nursing Jalandhar, Punjab

ABSTRACT

The transitional stage of development between childhood and adulthood which represents the period of time during which a person’s experiences a variety of biological changes and encounters a number of emotional issues, is known as adolescents. According to World Health Organization Adolescents are persons in the age group of 10-19 years. There are about 1.2 billion adolescents worldwide and one in every five people in the world is an adolescents. Aim of the study to assess and provide knowledge regarding prevention of suicide among adolescents. A quasi experimental, non randomized control group research design was used to conduct study on 60 adolescents (30 in experimental and 30 in control group) by using convenient sampling method of non probability sampling technique. Tool included socio demographic data and structured questionnaire for assessing the knowledge regarding prevention of suicide among adolescents. Two schools were assigned to experimental and control group. Data was collected from 60 adolescents by using structured questionnaire. The result showed that majority of the adolescents had below average level of knowledge in pre test in experimental group (77%) and in control group (80%). Majority (73%) adolescents of experimental group had good level of knowledge in post test and (77%) adolescents of control group had below average knowledge. Findings revealed that mean post test value (22.57) was higher in experimental group that in control group (13.60). Finding of the study showed that the post test mean knowledge score of adolescents regarding prevention of suicide of experimental group was higher than the post test mean knowledge score of control group at p<0.05 level. The formulated hypothesis H1 was retained at p<0.05. Hence, it concluded that structured teaching programme regarding prevention of suicide had impact on increasing the knowledge of adolescent girls.

Key words: Effectiveness, Prevention, Suicide, Schools, Structured teaching programme, Adolescents