A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURE TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING URINARY TRACT INFECTION AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN SELECTED SCHOOLS OF MEHSANA DISTRICT

Author Name: 1. Mr.Jayadev P.S 2. Ms. Mittal.

Volume/Issue: 03/06

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/12.2022-97861699/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. HOD of Medical Surgical Nursing department,  Joitiba  College of Nursing , Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana Gujrat, India.
2. 2^nd Year M.sc Nursing student, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana, Gujrat, India.

ABSTRACT

Urinary tract infection is the second most commonly seen bacterial infection in the health care sector each year, more than 8 million people are diagnosed with urinary tract infections.1 Urinary tract infection usually develops in the lower urinary tract (urethra and bladder) and if not properly treated they ascend to the upper urinary tract (ureters and kidneys) and cause severe damage to the kidneys. Other complications caused by UTIS are bladder infection (cystitis), urethral infection (urethritis), kidney infection (pyelonephritis) and infection of the ureter (urethritis).2 A quantitative using pre-Experimental one group pre-test & post-test Research Design. The participate were 60 adolescent girls selected schools of Mehsana district. Structured teaching programme was given to the adolescent girls. Self -Structured Questionnaire was used to assess the level of Knowledge regarding urinary tract infection among Adolescent girls. In this study Among the 60 adolescent girls, the majority of the samples 19(31.66%) were in the age group of 19 years, 32(53.33%) of the sample were in the 11thstandard ,60(100%) of the samples were in the science stream, were26(43.33%) fathers have graduate & post graduate, were mother40(66.66%) are graduate & post graduate ,about socio economic status 43(71.66%) are from the middle class, were 60 (100%) sample having a history of UTI, in that 23(38.33%) were having two time signs and symptoms , most of the samples 34(56.66%) were have a knowledge about UTI,11(26.433%) have knowledge from mass media. The findings of the study revealed that structure teaching programme helps in improving knowledge regarding urinary tract infection among adolescent girls. Assess, effectiveness, structure teaching programme. urinary tract infection, adolescent girls.

Key words: urinary tract infections bladder infection, kidney infection, girls