Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Obesity among High School Children in Selected School of Moradabad, U.P.

Childhood obesity has been rising rapidly in India. The rate is higher among those at a lower socio economic status and racial/ethnic minority groups.

Obesity is defined as having excess body fat. The common sign and symptoms seen in individual are clothes feeling tight and needing a large size, the scale showing that you've gained weight, having extra fat around the waist, higher than normal body mass index and waist circumferences.

Prevention of obesity involves healthy life style. The national examination survey reported that the prevalence of overweight children double and the prevalence of overweight adolescent tripled between 1980 and 2000. It becomes the Nurse's responsibility to stress the importance of prevention of obesity and urgency of receiving medical advice.

The main objective of the study was to assess the knowledge on prevention of obesity among high school children using Structured Knowledge Questionnaires before and after implementation of Structured Teaching Programme.

Quasi experimental with one group pre and post test design was adapted. The study was conducted at urban area of Moradabad. Sixty children in the age group of 11–15 years students were taken from Bonny Anne Public School, Moradabad. Simple Random sampling was used to select the samples of this study. The tool was designed to collect the demographic Performa and Structured Knowledge Questionnaires. The method used to collect the data was Structured Questionnaires.

Collected data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that 55% of the children had adequate knowledge and 41.66% of the children had moderately 3.33% of the children had inadequate knowledge in pre test, where as in post test 100% of children had adequate knowledge.

The study revealed the knowledge Score about prevention of obesity which has been improved through the Structured Teaching programme.

STP on prevention of obesity was effective in enhancing the knowledge regarding prevention of childhood obesity.