A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Safe Motherhood among adolescent girls in selected Higher Secondary School at Puducherry

The present study aims at assessing the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on safe motherhood among adolescent girls. The current study is based on General Systems Theory by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy. The research approach is quantitative evaluatory approach and the design selected for the study is pre experimental design, in which one group pre test-post test design. Sampling technique is cluster sampling. Sample consists of 120 adolescent girls who are studying in plus two classes and those who satisfies the inclusion criteria are considered as samples. The main objective of the present study is to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on safe motherhood among adolescent girls. The tools used are structured questionnaire to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on safe motherhood among adolescent girls. Content validity is done with the help of experts. Split-Half method is used to check the reliability. The actual study is conducted after finding the feasibility of the tool by using pilot study. The data obtained are tabulated and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The statistical analysis of the data shows that 65% of the adolescent girls had moderate knowledge and STP was effective in improving the knowledge as the ‘t’ value is 37.229 which was highly significant than the table value at p< 0.01. The findings revealed that there was a significant improvement in knowledge of adolescent girls in post test after structured teaching programme. It also showed that there was an association with pre test knowledge and selected demographic variables like father's education and mother's occupation.

To assess the level of knowledge on safe motherhood among adolescent girls.

To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on safe motherhood among adolescent girls.

To associate the level of pretest knowledge on safe motherhood with selected demographic variables among adolescent girls.

The research design adopted for this study is pre experimental design, of which one group pretest-post test design.

The study was conducted at various schools in Puducherry.

The samples used are 120 adolescent girls studying in higher secondary school. The sampling technique used is cluster sampling.

The study finding also showed that there is significant association between the pre test knowledge and selected demographic variables like father's education and mother's education but there is no significant association between the pre test knowledge and family type, monthly income, number of elder females in the family, exposure and group of study. So the hypothesis is accepted.

The difference between pretest and post test score revealed that structured teaching program is very effective in improving knowledge of adolescent girls. The pre test knowledge of safe motherhood is significantly associated with variables like father's education and mother's education but there is no significant association between the pre test knowledge and family type, monthly income, number of elder females in the family, exposure and group of study.