“A study to assess the effectiveness of Video-Assisted Teaching Programme on knowledge, and practice regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls in selected schools at Udaipur, Rajasthan”

Background Of The Study: Menstruation is the first significant milestone in the reproductive history of a women‟s life. Menstrual health is affected by the economic, social, cultural, and educational environment, in which girls are born, grow to womanhood, marry and repeat the process in starting their own families. In recent times reproductive tract infection have been increasingly recognized as a major health problem affecting women world over. Reproductive tract infection preferentially affect women over men, because women are more likely to be infected, less likely to seek care, are more difficult to diagnose and suffer more severe biological and social consequences. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on knowledge and practice regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls in selected schools at Udaipur. Problem Statement: “A study to assess the effectiveness of Video-Assisted Teaching Programme on knowledge, and practice regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls in selected schools at Udaipur, Rajasthan” Objectives: To assess the pre-test and post-test level of knowledge and practice regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls in experimental group. To assess the pre-test and post-test level of knowledge and practice regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls in control group. To evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on the knowledge regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls in experimental group. To evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on the practice regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls in experimental group. To find out the relationship between level of knowledge and practice regarding menstrual health among adolescence girls experimental group. To associate the pre test level of knowledge & practice regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls with their demographic variables such as age, age at menarche, educational status of the student, educational status of the parent, occupation of the parents, family monthly income, type of family, religion, any prior information regarding menstruation. Materials and Methods: Non equivalentpre testpost test control group quasi experimental research design was used. The tool used for data collection was structured questionnaire to assess the level of knowledge and practices regarding menstrual health among adolescent girls who participated in the present study. The sampling technique adopted for the study was simple random sampling technique. The sample size of the study was 60 among which 30 samples were in experimental group and 30 samples were in control group. Result: 80% in experimental group had inadequate knowledge in pre test, after video assisted teaching only 4% had inadequate knowledge in post test. There was significant improvement in mean post test knowledge score (12.13) in experimental group which was higher than that of the control group (5.83) (t value = 8.52., p<0.05). Also 66.6% adolescent girls in experimental group had poor practice in pre test, after video assisted teaching 33.3% had good self reported practices and 50% had moderate practices in experimental group. There was an improvement in mean post test practices score of the experimental group (6.6) which was higher than mean post test practice score (3.37) in control group (t value = 7.83.,p<0.001). There was a highly significant positive relationship between the post test level of knowledge and the post test level of practice of adolescent girls. The obtained „r‟ value was 0.54 is significant at 0.05 level. Conclusion: The study proved that video assisted teaching programme is an effective teaching strategy in improving the knowledge and practices of adolescent girls related to menstrual health.