Effectiveness of Awareness Programme on Knowledge Regarding Juvenile Delinquency Among Adolescents in Selected Schools of Darjeeling District, West Bengal

This study was conducted with the objective of finding out the effectiveness of awareness programme on knowledge of adolescents regarding juvenile delinquency in terms of change in knowledge score, to find out the association between pre-test knowledge score with selected demographic variables. Quasi experimental one group pretest posttest design was used to conduct the study among 130 adolescents by using non-probability purposive sampling technique. Semi-structured questionnaire and structured knowledge questionnaire was used for data collection. Study result revealed that there was significant increase in mean post-test knowledge score (22) than pretest knowledge score (15) with the mean difference of 6.52, the obtained mean difference was found to be statistically significant as evident from the obtained t-values (Paired t test) of (8.7) for (df=129)3.29 at 0.001 level of significance. This indicated administration of awareness programme was found effective. Computed chi square values showed there was a significant association between knowledge score and age. Keywords: [Effectiveness, Knowledge, awareness programme, juvenile delinquency, adolescents]