Effectiveness of Health Education Package on Knowledge Regarding Reproductive Health among Adolescent Girls

Abstract

The study was conducted with an aim to improve the knowledge of adolescent girls regarding reproductive health, to promote health and to encourage them to establish healthy patterns of behavior that will influence their health.

Objectives Of The Study:  1. To determine the association between pre interventional level of knowledge regarding reproductive health and selected demographic variables such as  educational standard, mother’s education , mother’s occupation  , birth order and family income. 2. To compare the pre and post interventional knowledge regarding reproductive health among adolescent girls.

Hypothesis: H1: - There is significant difference in knowledge about reproductive health among adolescent girls after administration of health education package at 0.05 level of significance.

H2:-There is significant association between pre test level of knowledge and selected demographic variables such as educational standard, mother’s education, mother’s occupation, birth order and family income at 0.05 level of significance.

Methodology: A pre -experimental one group pre test and post-test design was used for the study in order to evaluate the effectiveness of health education package on knowledge regarding reproductive health among adolescent girls in selected higher secondary school of district Pulwama, Kashmir. Simple random sampling technique was used for selection of 60 students from accessible population. Pre test was done by administering structured questionnaire followed by health education package on the same day and on day 7^th post test was conducted by using same questionnaire. The data collected was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results : The knowledge level of study subjects regarding reproductive health showed that in pre test score, among the total sample (N= 60) , (56.70%) had average knowledge and  (33.30%) had good knowledge and  (8.30%) had below average knowledge and least (1.70%) had excellent knowledge regarding reproductive health. Where as in post test majority (88.30%) of the study subjects had excellent knowledge and least (11.70%) had good knowledge, and none of the study subjects had below average knowledge regarding reproductive health. The mean posttest knowledge score (33.10+3.03) was higher than the mean pretest knowledge score (16.52+4.44).This indicates the effectiveness of the health education package in increasing the level of knowledge of adolescent girls regarding reproductive health. There was  no  statistically significant association between  pretest level of knowledge of  study subjects with their selected demographic variables such as educational standard, mother’s education and mother’s occupation at level p<0.05.  

Conclusion : The findings of the study concluded that adolescent girls were not possessing adequate knowledge regarding reproductive health. The health education package was found effective in increasing the knowledge level of study subjects, hence there was dire need to educate them regarding reproductive health.