PRE-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING HOME REMEDIES USED IN DYSMENORRHEA AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN SELECTED HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS DISTRICT KISHTWAR

Nowadays it is common to see that the adolescent girls face large number of difficulties during their menstrual period. As of now the adolescent girls are trying to get home remedies in order to reduce the level of pain before and during menstrual period. The dysmenorrhea leads to develop different kinds of adverse effect on adolescent girls for example low concentration during classes, difficulties in accomplishing homework, school absenteeism, Lack of interest in domestic activities, Lack of interest in class work and even the adolescent girls are maintaining social distances among family members as well as among friends during these days. Dysmenorrhea also limits participation in sports and social activities. Many women and adolescent girls are nowadays trying to find some basic remedies which can help them to relieve the dysmenorrhea. Therefore, On the basis of these views a study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding home remedies used in dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls in selected higher secondary schools of District kishtwar. For which 30 subjects were selected by stratified random sampling technique. After data collection structured close ended knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge among subjects. The data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics by using chi-square and t-test. The findings revealed that the mean posttest knowledge score (24.9) standard deviation 0.69, was significantly higher than mean pretest knowledge score 12.7 standard deviation 1.16among study subjects which indicated that structured teaching program was highly effective in enhancing the knowledge in adolescent girls at mean difference 17.17. The study also concluded that there were statistically no significant association between demographic variables (p=0.000) of adolescent girls with their pre-test knowledge scores at 0.05 level of significance.