A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection among adolescents in selected school at Kollam

A study to assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection among adolescents in selected school at Kollam. The objectives of the study were: a) to assess the knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection among adolescents in a selected school at Kollam. b) to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection among adolescents in a selected school at Kollam. c) to find out the association between the pretest knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection among adolescents and selected demographic variables. A quantitative approach was used with one group pretest posttest research design. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used. Sample size was 60. The investigator assessed the knowledge of adolescents using structured questionnaire regarding NIPAH virus infection after taking informed consent from sample. After conducting the pretest, the researcher provided Structured Teaching Programme for a period of 30 minutes on the same day. After one week Posttest was conducted using the same research tool. The findings of the present study showed that Structured Teaching Programme was effective to increase the knowledge regarding NIPAH virus infection among adolescents.