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International Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Volume  3, Issue 1, January - April 2017, Pages 39-45
 

Original Article

A Pre Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Level of Awareness among Adolescent Girls Regarding Complications and Prevention of Stress in Selected Hostels at Tamil Nadu

S.K. Mohanasundari

Nursing Tutor, Dept. of Paediatric Nursing, College of Nursing AIIMS, Jodhpur -342005 Rajasthan.

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DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijpen.2454.9126.3117.6

Abstract

 It is observed that suicidal rate is high among adolescence, that too in girls child due to high pressure from academic side and from parents side. The support system available for adolescence are not accessible if they stay in hostel that add their stress level more and complicate their coping mechanism. School-related situations such as tests, grades, studying, self-imposed need to succeed, as well as that induced by others are the main sources of stress for high school students Uncompensated stress leads to depression, anxiety, fear and anger that result in poor academic performance and suicidal risk. Adolescence knows which is stress provoking situations but we believe that the complication of stress is danger that need to be addressed quickly. So it is necessary for adolescent children having awareness about the complications of stress and its preventive measures. The present study investigates the awareness among the adolescent girls staying in hostel regarding complication of stress and prevention of stress. A total of 60 samples were taken by lottery method. Tool consists of two session, demographic variable and structured closed ended question. After ethical clearance and informed concern Post test was conducted after 7 days of STP. Tables and figures were used to describe the data. Thus the difference in the level of awareness was confirmed by Paired‘t’ test value 8.89 which was significant at p< 0.001 level. It shows that the structured-teaching programme was effective and the subjects gained knowledge in complication and prevention of stress.

Keywords: Stress; Complications; Prevention; Adolescence; Structured Teaching Programme.


Corresponding Author : S.K. Mohanasundari