A QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS EFFECTIVENESS OF “PEER TUTORING” METHOD ON KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING RAINBOW DIET FOR PROMOTION OF HEALTH AMONG EARLY ADOLESCENT OF SELECTED GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF DURG DISTRICT C.G.

Author Name: 1. Kalpana Bhushan Joshi, 2. Sunita Verma, 3. Shirin Bhoyer

Volume/Issue: 05/02

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2024-65721727/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Associate professor, GCON, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India.
2. Associate professor, GCON, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India.
3. M.Sc. Nursing Final Year Student, GCON, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India.

ABSTRACT

Good nutrition is necessary for good health and essential for physical growth and development of adolescents. Studying adolescents knowledge and attitudes on rainbow nutrition in a selected government school that has a key role in promoting a healthy lifestyle among children. According to school health recommendations, healthy nutrition is significant in avoiding illness The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of peer tutoring method on knowledge and attitude regarding rainbow diet in early adolescents. Independent variables is peer tutoring and dependent variables are knowledge score and attitude score. In pilot study which is conducted in Block Patan , Durg District and study sample was 10. The reliability is computed by Karl Pearson formula. The research design was one group pre test post test only research design. Sampling technique was simple random sampling technique, self structured questionnaire was used. Reliability of tools for knowledge questionnaire is r = 0.96 and for attitude questionnaire is r = 0.87 , hence it is accepted and reliable . Over all impact of peer tutoring revealed that the for knowledge score calculated t value = 2.450 t and tabulated value = 2.26 @0.05 level of significance, Hence calculated t value is > tabulated value ,and for attitude score calculated t value = 6.131 and tabulated value = 2.26 @0.05 level of significance, Hence calculated t value is > tabulated value. It rejected the null hypothesis, so there is significance difference in knowledge and attitude level regarding rainbow diet in pre test and post test score in pilot study.

Key words: Peer tutoring, Rainbow Diet