A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer Among Adolescent Girls at Selected Government Higher Secondary School, Durg, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

The current study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding human papilloma virus vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer among adolescent girls at selected government higher secondary school, Durg, (C.G.) Quasi-experimental and the research design was one group pretest – posttest design is utilized to achieve the stated. Objectives: To assess the pre-test knowledge score regarding human papilloma virus vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer. 1. To assess the post-test knowledge score regarding human papilloma virus vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on human papilloma virus vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer. 3. To find the association between pre-test knowledge score with their selected socio-demographic variables among adolescent girls score regarding human papilloma virus vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer. Hypothesis: (H1) – There will be significant higher knowledge score of post-test than pre-test regarding human papilloma virus vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer among adolescent girls of selected government higher secondary school, Durg, (C.G.). (H2) – There will be significant association between the pre-test and post-test knowledge score with their selected demographic variables. Projected Outcome: In the present study research design performed in this study is one group pre-test and post-test research design. The study was based on the Open System Theory–By Bertalanffy and J.W Kenny. Evaluative research approach. For main study Purposive sampling technique was used on 60 samples of structured questionnaire regarding HPV vaccination was adopted to approach the subject, government higher secondary school, Durg, Chhattisgarh. The tool used for data collection consists of socio-demographic variables and knowledge of adolescent girls regarding human papilloma virus vaccination for prevention of cervical cancer. Descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized for the data analysis. The level of significance set for testing the hypothesis was, 0.05 using “t-test”.