A Pre-Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme On Knowledge Regarding Life Style Changes in Prevention of Pre-Menstrual Syndrome Among Adolescent Girls in a Selected School at Dehlon, Ludhiana
A pre-experimental, one-group pre-test–post-test design was used for the study. Using the purposive random sampling technique, 50 adolescent girls were selected, and the data were collected by administering the structured knowledge questionnaire on premenstrual syndrome during adolescence period. After collecting data, the planned teaching program (PTP) was administered to the subjects on the same day and on the eighth day; a post-test was conducted using the same structured knowledge questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using the descriptive and inferential statistics. The chi-square was used to compute the association of the post-test knowledge scores with the demographic variables. Results showed that the calculated χ2 value of age at first menstruation (0.46), religion (1.44) and family income (1.31) were less than the table value (5.99), and age (3.44) was less than the table value (3.84). Hence there is no significant association with the post-test knowledge scores, and the calculated χ2 value of educational status (8.3) was more than the table value (3.84), hence there is a significant association with the post-test knowledge scores at 0.05 level of significance. The analysis of the pre-test knowledge shows that, in the pre-test scores, the majority (22%) of the adolescent girls had average knowledge, 78% of them had poor knowledge and none of them had good knowledge, whereas in the post-test, the majority (60%) of the adolescent girls had average knowledge, 38% of them had good knowledge and the least (2%) of them had poor knowledge regarding lifestyle changes in prevention of premenstrual syndrome.
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