Quantitative Intervention and Evaluative Study on HIV/AIDS Awreness among Adolescent School Children

The study summarized here is an intervention and evaluative quantitative research on "Effectiveness of the planned teaching program [STP & SIM] in prevention of Risk taking behavior on HIV/AIDS and to evaluate the best suitable method of intervention program among adolescent in selected higher secondary school. The population of the study was the adolescent those who are 15–17 year's age. Convenient quota sampling technique was used to select 400 samples for the experimental group and 400 samples for the control group. The quantitative research approach was adopted to conduct this study based on pretest and posttest designing.

Data collection tools used wear self instructional module, structured teaching program (SIM&STP) and the questionnaire to assess the knowledge, attitude and the knowledge on practice on awareness of HIV/AIDS and the risk taking behavior among the risky adolescent group. Data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The post test experimental group findings shows that statistically significant (p<0.005) increased in knowledge, attitude, and the knowledge on practice on awareness of HIV/AIDS and the risk taking behavior among the risky adolescent group. The investigators study proved, like Global health org, (2009), the most appropriate specific selected group intervention was the Structured teaching program [STP]. The STP was better than SIM by the level of significant difference of Pre test and Post test on each method. It was confirmed by t = 60.3p = 0.001 level of significance.