A Study Evaluate the Effectiveness of Integrated Elementary Educational Programme (IEEP) On Knowledge Regarding Prevalence Of Drug Addiction And Its Associated Risk Factor Among PU Students At Selected PU Colleges, Dharwad.

The study was conducted at BEST PU, Dharwad. The study was conducted from 10/01/2025 to 16/01/2025. Preexperimental one group pre-test and post-test design was used in this study. The total period of data collection was 1 week. 60 samples were selected using convenience sampling technique. Oral consent was obtained. During the first week, assessment of the level of knowledge on Prevalence of Drug Addiction And Its Associated Risk Factor. The Integrated Elementary Educational Programme (IEEP) regarding Prevalence of Drug Addiction And Its Associated Risk Factor was provided. After 15 Days of Integrated Elementary Educational Programme (IEEP) the level of knowledge among PU students were assessed by using Structured Knowledge Questionnaire. The descriptive statistics was used for categorical data, mean and standard deviation, inferential statistics, Paired‘t’ test was used to evaluate the effectiveness of Integrated Elementary Educational Programme (IEEP) regarding Problems of Prevalence of Drug Addiction and its associated Risk factors among PU students and Chi square was used to find out association between the level of knowledge regarding problems of Prevalence of Drug Addiction and its associated Risk factors among PU students and their demographic variables. There was a significant difference (p<0.05) found between the pre-test 10.16(± 2.08) and post-test 15.9 (± 1.81) mean score on level of knowledge regarding problems of Prevalence of Drug Addiction and its associated Risk factors among PU students. There was no significant association on demographic variables. The finding of the study shows that Integrated Elementary Educational Programme (IEEP) is more effective to improve the level of knowledge regarding problems of Prevalence of Drug Addiction and its associated Risk factors among PU students.