Impact of sexual and Reproductive Health education Programme in Improving their Knowledge among school Going Adolescents: A Pre Experimental Pilot Study

This study explores the effectiveness on knowledge regarding sexual and reproductive health among school going adolescents

The research design was pre experimental one group pre test post test design. Reliability and validity of the tool were established. evaluated by test-retest method and the Chronbach alpha was found to be 0.99 Data were collected through resarcher-developed questionnaire through probability sampling. The study was conducted in at St. Joseph's High School Andhra Pradesh, India among 30 sample after obtaining ethical permission. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics

The analysis showed that prior to administering structured teaching programme the adolescents knowledge level is between poor and good knowledge level. After implementing educational programme it was reported that the level of knowledge was increased from poor to good and excellent. The present study revealed the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on sexual and reproductive health awareness among adolescents through pre and post test. Study revealed that pre test mean was 18.47 with standard deviation 2.27 however post test mean was 31.6 with standard deviation 1.83 which signified the effectiveness of structured teaching programme, As the table t value (2.045) is less than the calculated t value (28.14) at degree of freedom 29, at 0.05 level of significance. So there is a significant difference between the pre & the post test level of knowledge regarding sex awareness.