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Abstract
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Cardiovascular diseases are very important causes of mortality and morbidity in developed as well as developing countries including India Atherosclerotic changes begin in the early ages and progress to great extent during adolescence. Physical inactivity, unhealthy habits, eating fast foods, unhealthy competition and stress make today’s adolescents vulnerable to develop heart disease in future. The healthy behaviours adopted during adolescence provide an opportunity for teenagers to incorporate healthy lifestyle that will benefit them not only during the teenage years, but also throughout the life span. Health promotion for this age group consists mainly of teaching and guidance to avoid risk taking activities and health damaging behaviours.
OBJECTIVES
1. To assess the knowledge of adolescents on risk factors of heart diseases before and after implementation of structured teaching programme.
2. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on risk factors of heart diseases among adolescents.
3. To find an association between knowledge regarding risk factors of heart diseases with selected socio demographic variables.
METHODOLOGY
Pre Experimental-One group pretest posttest research design was adopted for the study. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to obtain 60 adolescents from Cambridge English School. Pre-test was done by using structured knowledge questionnaire regarding risk factors of heart diseases followed by 45 minutes of structured teaching programme. Post-test was conducted on 7th day of pre-test using same structured knowledge questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
RESULTS
The study findings showed that pretest mean knowledge score of participants was 16.12 with standard deviation of 4.465 whereas in the post test mean knowledge score was 20.57 with standard deviation of 4.397. The effectiveness of structured teaching programme found calculated ‘t’ value 8.802 at p<0.001, hence there is significant difference in knowledge of adolescents on risk factors of heart diseases before and after implementation of structured teaching programme. With regards to the association between level of knowledge and socio demographic variables, no association was found between pre test level of knowledge and the socio demographic variables at p<0.05.
CONCLUSION
The study concluded that majority of adolescents had moderate knowledge regarding risk factors of heart diseases and also findings provide the statistical evidence which clearly indicate that Structured Teaching Programme has significant effect on improving the level of knowledge in adolescents regarding risk factors of heart diseases.
