A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on Child to Child Approach on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Accidents among High School Children at Selected High School

Aim: The research approach used for this study was evaluation approach and the design selected Quasi Experimental study with pre-test?post-test design. A total of 50 students of high school children were participated in the study as sample. Out of 50 students, 41 (82 %) were under below average knowledge level in pre test whereas in post-test were found nil, 9 (18 %) were under average knowledge level in pre test whereas 8 (13.3 %) were average knowledge level in post-test, above average knowledge level in pre test were found nil whereas 42 (84. %) were under above average knowledge level in post-test. These differences indicate that structured teaching programme was highly affected in students of high school children. Reveals that there was significant association between pre-test knowledge scores on prevention of accidents with education, income and source of information among mothers where the obtained chi square values significant at 0.05 level of significance. Whereas there was no significant association between age, religion and type of family where they obtained chi square values were not significant. . . By this study high school children gain knowledge regarding effectiveness of prevention of accidents.