Pre-experimental study to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching about knowledge regarding changes during puberty among the adolescent girls in urban school

Abstract

Introduction: “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” -Brad Henry

The word Puberty is derived from the Latin word “Pubertas”, which means ‘age of manhood’. It refers to the physical rather than behavioral changes which occur when the individual becomes sexually mature and is capable of producing offspring’s. It is an important period of biological changes in which rapid growth occurs. Adolescence is defined as a phase of life characterized by rapid physical growth and development, physical, social and psychological changes and maturity, sexual maturity, experimentation, development of adult mental processes and a move from the earlier childhood socio-economic dependence towards relative independence. This is also the period of psychological transition from a child who has to live in a family to an adult who has to live in a society. Adolescents have very special and distinct needs, which can no longer be overlooked. In an adolescent, the development that takes place is generally uneven, in that physical maturity may well be achieved in advance of psychological or social maturity.

ResearchApproach: Quantative research approach, Interventional approach Research Design: One group pre-test post-test research design, Setting: Selected schools of the city. Sampling Size: 70 adolescent girls in selected rural school. Sampling Technique:Purposive sampling technique Population: adolescent girls Conclusion: Majority of subjects belonged 12-13 year age group ( 47.1 %) , most of them were  primary education  up to mother ( 47.1 %), majority of the subjects were joint family (54.3%), majority of the subjects sources of information    (72.9%).Assessing the exiting knowledge of subject by pre- test. It show the subjects had deficient knowledge in all section. The planned teaching was implemented. The effectiveness of planned teaching was done by the post- test 31.80% to 75.42%.this show that planned teaching was effective in all the area of knowledge.The comparisons of pre-test and post-test knowledge level were done which shows there was  significant increase in the knowledge score of subjects.The pre-test and post-test knowledge scores were compared with the selected demographic variables such as age, mothers education .type of family, previous information, score of information. Age, mother education in these   demographic variables there were  significant  correlation was found.