Abstract

This study entitled “A study to assess the effectiveness of nurse led intervention on knowledge and practice of food borne diseases and its prevention among teenagers studying in selected school at Gonda” submitted in the year 2025. Aims: The objectives are to assess the level of knowledge and practice of food borne diseases and its prevention among teenagers in selected school at Gonda, to evaluate the effectiveness of nurse led intervention on knowledge and practice of food borne diseases and its prevention among teenagers in selected school at Gonda, To find out the association between post-test level of knowledge and practice of food borne diseases and its prevention with their selected socio demographical variables. Hypothesis: H1 There will be a significant difference between pretest and post-test knowledge on knowledge and practice of food borne diseases and its prevention among teenagers studying in selected school at Gonda. H2 There will be a significant association between post-test knowledge with selected demographic variables among teenagers in selected schools at Gonda. Design and setting: Quasiexperimental approach with one group pre-test post-test design was utilized in this study. Methods and materials: 60 samples were selected by convenient sampling technique. A structured knowledge questionnaire was utilized to assess the knowledge of the adolescents. Results: In pre-test mean 11.42 and standard deviation 2.07 and post-test mean 20.45 and standard deviation 1.33 with correlation value 0.08. t-value were 27.35 and df-59 significant with level of 0.05, showed the effectiveness of nurse led intervention regarding food borne disease and its prevention among teenagers. Conclusion: The findings of post-test the level of knowledge has improved and the score has indicated an adequate level of knowledge among teenagers regarding food borne disease and its prevention. The improvement in the level of knowledge is due to the administration of the structure-teaching programme.

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