A study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge and attitude regarding anorexia nervosa among the adolescent girls in selected schools of Dehradun

Abstract

The aim of the study was determine the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge and attitude regarding anorexia nervosa among adolescent girls. A pre experimental one group pretest-posttest design was used for the study. Convenience non- probability sampling technique was used to select 100 adolescent girls. The data collection tool consists of three parts: demographic variables, self-structured questionnaire and eating attitude test-26. The result showed that there is no significant association between knowledge of adolescent girls regarding anorexia nervosa with selected socio-demographic variables. This study concludes that planned teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge and attitude regarding anorexia nervosa among the adolescent girls.