“Assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on level of knowledge and attitude regarding HPV vaccination among parents of adolescents at selected urban community areas of Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli”.

ABSTRACT Statement of the problem: The present study “Assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on level of knowledge and attitude regarding HPV vaccination among parents of adolescents at selected urban community areas of Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli”. Methods: This quantitative study was used. A total 100 parents of adolescents who met the sampling criteria were selected with purposive sampling technique from urban community areas of DNH. The data were collected using structured knowledge questionnaire and attitude scale. Pre-test and post-test score were utilized to assess the level of knowledge and attitude among the parents of adolescents regarding HPV vaccination. Results: results showed a significant difference in mean pretest (7.71) and posttest knowledge score(18.92) of parents of adolescents after administering structre teaching programme as measured by ‘t’ test (25.84) which was highly significant at 0.05 level of significance. There was significant differece in mean pretest (28.17) and post test attitude score(38.65) of parents of adolescents after administering structre teaching programme as measured by ‘t’ test (16.06) which was highly significant at 0.05 level of significance. There is significant association between demographical variable that is monthly income with knowledge score at 0.05 level ofsignificant and There is sigfnificant association between demographical variable that is age and monthly income with attitude score at 0.05 level of significant. There is positive correlation between knowledge and attitude in pretest and positve correlation between knowledge and attitude in posttest. Conclusion: The study concluded that there was a significant knowledge gain in parents of adolescents about HPV vaccination after administration structure teaching programme, Knowledge, Attitudes, Knowledge, Effectiveness of STP, HPV vaccination, Parents of adolescents & Urban Community.