Effectiveness of Adolescent Reproductive Health Education Programme Using Nurse-Led Teacher Delivered Approach on Knowledge and Attitude of School Going Adolescent Girls In Kerala

The main objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of adolescent reproductive health education programme using nurse led teacher delivered approach on knowledge and attitude of school going adolescent girls.

An experimental approach following pretest- posttest control group design was chosen for the study. Subjects were randomly selected for both experimental and control group. After the pretest, teachers were trained by the investigator first and trained teachers had given the intervention to adolescent girls. Post test knowledge and attitude were measured on the second week, second month and fourth month of the intervention.

Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data. Post test revealed a significant increase in the scores of knowledge and attitude in the experimental group and no significant changes in the control group.

The results indicate that the knowledge and attitude were significantly increased after the intervention. Hence the nurse led teacher delivered approach is very useful to impart adolescent reproductive health education programme in schools.