A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Management of selected Adolescent Behavioral problems and its Prevention among B.Ed. students of a selected B.Ed. College, Hassan

Abstract: Mental health means the ability to balance feelings, distress, ambitions for idea in once daily life and the ability to face and accept realities of life.1 Importance of good habit lays the fact that if we practice habit, it will take form of your character Bad habits are a patterned behavior regarded as detrimental to on physical and mental health. The decade of adolescence conceptualize as the ages of 10 to 19 years normal behavior in adolescence depends on age, personality and physical and emotional development. Adolescents are at risk for the development of problem behaviors that are distressing and socially disruptive. Some problem behaviors, such as having multiple sex partners, can result in problems for the individual and others.4 Methods: Evaluative research approach was used for this study and it aims to assess the knowledge regarding Behavioral Problems for B.Ed. students. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used. Non probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample. Result: The reliability of the tool is computed using split half Karl Pearson’s correlation formula (Raw score method). The reliability co-efficient of half test of knowledge questionnaire (r1/2) is found to be 0.96. The mean percentage of post-test knowledge score (85%) was higher than the mean percentage of pre-test knowledge score (40.1%). The calculated 't 'value (28.92%) is greater than the table value (0.05, 49df). It showed a significant difference between mean pre and post-test knowledge scores. Calculated 2 values are showed significant association between age, family income/month. CONCLUSION: A pre-experimental one group pretest posttest design was used in the study. The data was collected from 50 samples through purposive sampling technique. This study is concluded that, the knowledge of the adolescent was not adequate before the introduction of STP. After the introduction of the STP, the posttest findings showed the significant increase in the knowledge of B.Ed. students on selected Behavioural problems. STP is proved to be one of the effective teaching strategies.