A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding ill effects of cigarette smoking and it’s prevention among adolescent in selected college at Vadnagar

Abstract

Background: Smoking is the harmful habits which are increasing day by day. cigarette smoking threatening non-smoker as well as smoker is one of the considerable factors in millions of people’s loss of their life in the world each year. Aim: To assess the knowledge of cigarette smoking among adolescent. Objective: 1. To assess the pre-test level of knowledge regarding ill effects of cigarette smoking among adolescent. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding ill effects of cigarette smoking among adolescent. 3. To find out association between pre and post-test knowledge with their demographic variable. Material and Method: The research approach used for the study was a Quantitative research approach, pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test study design was used for the study was conducted at a selected college at Vadnagar. The sample size should be chosen with the help of non probability purposive sampling technique. The data were collected by structured questionnaires. The data were analyzed using descriptive& inferential statistics. Result: The result shows that adolescent boys were grouped in three categories according to their knowledge scores as poor, good and very good scores obtained in pre and post assessment. In pre-test majority of students 81% were in poor category, 17% students were in good category and 2% student were in very good category of Knowledge scores. Where as in post-test after planned teaching programme majority of 61% students were in the category of very good knowledge scores and 2% students were in the category of poor knowledge score. These was clearly show that that the structured teaching programme imparted to participants to improve knowledge regarding ill effect of cigarette smoking and its prevention had significantly increased in the post test.