A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Complications of Alcoholism among Adolescents in Selected Schools of the City

Introduction: Alcoholism is one of the major global health problems. From a public health perspective, alcohol consumption has become a major burden both in terms of morbidity and mortality in most parts of the world, alcohol consumption has health and social consequences via intoxication, alcohol dependence, and other biochemical effects of alcohol, which lead to traumatic outcomes that kill or disable the individual at a young age. Impairment may involve physiological, psychological or social dysfunction. Objectives: To assess the pre test knowledge regarding complications of alcoholism among adolescents in selected schools of the city. To assess the post test knowledge regarding complications of alcoholism among adolescents in selected schools of the city. To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding complications of alcoholism among adolescents in selected schools of the city. To associate the knowledge scores with selected demographic variable. Results: The result of this study shows that the statistical Student?s paired t test implies that the difference in the pre test and post test knowledge score found to be 18.77 statistically significant at 0.05% level. Hence it is statistically interpreted that structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding complications of alcoholism was effective. Thus H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected.