A study to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on level of knowledge regarding problems of substance abuse among higher secondary school students (15 - 17 years) at selected schools in Dindigul district

A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on level of Knowledge regarding Problems of Substance Abuse among Higher Secondary School Students (15-17 years) at Selected Schools in Dindigul District. The study was conducted at Buds Flourishing Hindu Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Oddanchatram in Dindigul District. The study was conducted from 29.06.11 to 28.07.11. Preexperimental one group pretest and posttest design was used in this study. The total period of data collection was 4 weeks. 50 samples were selected using convenience sampling technique. Oral consent was obtained. During the first week, assessment of the level of knowledge on problems of substance abuse among Higher Secondary School Students was done. The Structured Teaching Programme regarding problems of substance abuse was provided. After 15 days of Structured Teaching Programme the level of knowledge among Higher Secondary School 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 Structured Teaching Programme regarding Problems of Substance abuse among Higher Secondary School Students and Chi square was used to find out association between the level of knowledge regarding Problems of Substance abuse among Higher Secondary School Students and their demographic variables. There was a significant difference (p < 0.05) found between the pretest 10.16 (±2.08) and posttest 15.9 (±1.81) mean score on level of knowledge regarding Problems of Substance abuse among Higher Secondary School Students. There was no significant association on demographic variables. The finding of the study shows that Structured Teaching Programme is more effective to improve the level of knowledge regarding problems of substance abuse among Higher Secondary School Students