Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: October-December | Volume: 4 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 105-109
A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge of High School Students Regarding Hazards of Plastic Use At Selected School, Villupuram
Karthi. R1, Umapathy. M2, Sathiya. N2
1Associate Professor & HOD, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, ES College of Nursing, Villupuram, Tamilnadu.
2P.B.BSc(N), ES College of Nursing, Villupuram, Tamilnadu.
Corresponding Author: Karthi. R
ABSTRACT
Objectives: 1. To assess the knowledge of high school students regarding hazards of plastic use before and after administration of structured teaching programme. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge of high school students regarding hazards of plastic use in terms of gain in knowledge scores. 3. To associate the knowledge score on hazards of plastic use among high school students with their selected socio demographic variables.
Methodology: Pre- Experimental - one group pre and post test design. 50 school children were selected by using non-probability purposive sampling technique. Pre test was administered by using structured questionnaire followed by STP, after the gap of seven days post test was conducted by using same structured questionnaire for evaluating the effectiveness of STP.
Result: It is observed from the present study that the Mean as well as the Standard deviation of the knowledge on hazards of plastic use during the pretest is 7.08 and 2.71 and during the post test is 15.36 and 2.12 the difference in the mean knowledge score on hazards of plastic use is statistically significant at 0.05 level and the paired ‘t’ test value is 9.88 which shows the STP is more effective in improving the knowledge on hazards of plastic use. The no significant association between knowledge regarding hazards of plastic use among high school students with selected demographic variables.
Conclusion: The following conclusion was drawn on the basis of the findings of the study. This study shows that there was an improvement in the knowledge of high school students regarding Hazards of plastic use as evidenced by pre-test and post-test score.
Key words: knowledge, high school students, hazards of plastic use, structured teaching programme