A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding human papilloma virus vaccination among adolescent girls in selected colleges at Guntur

Abstract

Background: The human life is the most beautiful gift of god to universe. The continuity of the life one art his maintain need by a birth of new human being and forth a the has created a very beautiful and precious thing that is “adolescent. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding HPV vaccination among adolescent girls in experimental and control group. Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental research design was adopted and a total of 60 adolescent girls were selected by using non-probability purposive sampling technique. Data were collected by using a structured knowledge questionnaire. Results: Majority i.e., 21 (70%) of intranatal women in experimental group had severe labor pains in pre-test, where as in post-test 26(87%) of them had moderate labor pains. In the control group majority i.e. 18 (60%) had severe pains in pre-intervention and post intervention respectively. The pre-intervention mean of the intranatal women in experimental group was 8.0 with a standard deviation of 1.26 while in the post intervention, the mean was 4.46 with a standard deviation of 1.33. The calculated paired ‘t’ test was 13.6 which was found to be significant at p=0.05. Age, gravidity and parity were found significantly associated with the labour pains.Conclusion: Health education programmes must be conducted to further improve knowledge of adolescent girls regarding human papilloma virus vaccination.