Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: April-June | Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 245-253
A Comparative Study to Find out An Impact of Educational Interventional Program on Knowledge Regarding Reproductive Health among Rural Adolescent Girls - A Report of Pilot Study
Asha H. Bhatakhande1, Sanjay M. Peerapur2
1Ph.D Scholar, Jagadishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, (JJTU), Chudela, Jhunjhun, Rajasthan.
2Principal/Professor, HOD, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, KLES Institute of Nursing Sciences, Hubballi, Karnataka.
Corresponding Author: Sanjay M. Peerapur
ABSTRACT
Background- Good reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system. Human beings are beings, it means human beings are capable to reproduce and able to maintain reproductive health.
Objective- Total seven objectives were been formed and discussed in detail below.
Material and Methods-A study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of educational interventional program (constructive teaching program and self-instructional module) on knowledge regarding reproductive health among60 adolescent girls of selected rural PU colleges of Dharwad district, who were divided into two groups (group I with constructive teaching program & group II with self-instructional module). The research design used for the study was quasi-experimental; two group concurrent pre-test, post-test design. The demographic Performa were collected from the rural adolescent girls by using structured knowledge questionnaire.
Results-Revealed that in Group-I: The pretest knowledge scores of rural girls were 23.34%with good knowledge, 50% of them had an average knowledge and 26.6% of them had poor knowledge. Where as in posttest, the knowledge scores were 100% with excellent awareness and none of them belonged to the category of average or poor. In Group-II: The pretest knowledge scores of rural girls were 26.6% with good knowledge, 50%of them had an average knowledge and 23.4% of them had below average knowledge. As compared to posttest knowledge scores, 94% of them had good knowledge, 6% of them had an average knowledge and none of them had poor. The paired‘t’ value was 27.5* which was more than that of value of tabulated. One way ANOVA reports 21, which proved that overall in due respect of comparison.
Conclusion- Therefore, the study concluded that both the educational methods were excellent. Among those two strategies, constructive teaching program was more effective than the self-instructional module for rural adolescent girls to increase and update their knowledge regarding reproductive health.
Keywords: Reproductive health, knowledge, rural adolescent girls, constructive teaching program, self-instructional module.