A Pre-Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Awareness of POCSO Act Among Adolescent Girls 16-18 Years in a Selected School at Abhanpur, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

Background of the Study: The POCSO Act, 2012 is a comprehensive law to provide for the protection of children from the offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and pornography, while safeguarding the interest of the child at every stage of the judicial process by incorporating child-f A pre- experimental study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding awareness of POCSO Act among adolescent girls 16-18 years in a selected school at Abhanpur, Chhattisgarh”. The aim of this study was to enhance the knowledge of adolescent girls regarding awareness of POCSO Act. In this study establish three objectives, first is to assess the pre-test and post test knowledge score regarding awareness of POCSO Act among adolescent girls16-18 years in a selected school at Abhanpur Chhattisgarh. Second objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on the knowledge regarding awareness of POCSO Act among adolescent girls (16-18 year) in a selected school at Abhanpur Chhattisgarh. Third objective is to find out the association between pre-test knowledge score regarding awareness of POCSO Act with their sociodemographic variables among adolescent girls 16-18years in a selected school at Abhanpur, Chhattisgarh. The research approach used for the study was quantitative research approach with pre-experimental research design and, research setting is Higher secondary school Abhanpur, target population is adolescent girls 16-18years using non-probability purposive sampling techniques, sample sizes 60 were selected, formulate the self-questionnaire nine socio-demographic, and fourteen content, and tool validated by seven experts, method of data collection by self-structured questionnaire, and data analysis by used descriptive and inferential statistics, in this study finding reliability of tool used karlpearson’s test and re -test method reliability is 0.84 which indicate prefect reliability, The findings of the study revealed that there was marked increased in the post-test knowledge The post-test mean score was 19.23 and the pre-test mean score was 13.13 mean difference is (6.1) Score, it reflects the structured teaching programme was effective. Hence it is concluded that overall post-test mean knowledge score (19.25) is greater than overall pre-test knowledge score (13.13) and after structured teaching programme POCSO Act gain 15.25 of the knowledge. It showed that the “t” value is 11.17 was greater than the table value 3.46 at (p<0.001) level of significance, which shows the effectiveness of structured teaching programme in which calculated value was x2 test. On applying chi-square test demographic variable family monthly income and occupation of father and number of family members as the chi-square value 38.49, 14.66, 9.55 were greater than table value 12.59 at 0.05 level significance respectively. Hence hypothesis H2 was accepted regards to variables. i.e., family monthly income occupation of father number of family members.