Professor and Vice-Principal, Life Guard Nursing Institute, Kaloudi Road, Sangrur-148001
*Corresponding Author's Email: tjeyarani82@gmail.com
Online published on 23 May, 2016.
Adolescent is considered as a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. Adolescent health and rights will yield large benefits for forthcoming generation.
To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on sex education among adolescent.
An experimental study was conducted on 60 adolescents for assessing their knowledge regarding sex education.
The study results showed, adolescent have scored adequate knowledge regarding sex education in experimental group.
There is significance association between post-test knowledge in experimental group and demographical data like mothers education, age at menarche and source of information of the adolescent. Hence, structured teaching program is very important in promoting, sexual health among adolescent age group.
Sex education, adolescents, structured teaching programme
