Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

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Adolescent age group is a very susceptible age group. These children are in phase of transition and undergo a lot of physical, social, hormonal, psychological and behavioral changes. Suicide is third leading cause of death among teenagers and young adults in their early twenties. The present study aimed to assess the knowledge of adolescents regarding prevention of suicidal behavior by evaluating the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme (STP) and to find out the association between the existing knowledge scores of adolescents and selected socio demographical variables i.e. age, gender, religion, type of family, educational status of parents, family income, and source of knowledge.The research approach used for this study was evaluative approach with pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design. Non probability convenient sampling technique was adopted for the study. The sample consisted of 60 adolescent students studying at Shri Devi pre-university college of Tumkur, Karnataka. The structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge which consisted of 8 items on baseline information and 40 structured knowledge questionnaire on suicide. The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that the overall mean pre-test knowledge score was 19.3 and standard deviation 2.43, whereas mean post-test knowledge score was 30.1 and standard deviation 3.79 with difference of mean and standard deviation 10.9 and 1.36 respectively. Calculated paired‘t’ value (tŠ§ 25.91) was greater than tabulated value (tŠ§ 1.960). This indicated that the gain in knowledge score was statistically significant at P < 0.05 levels. The investigator concluded that the structured teaching programme in the present study was effective in providing the knowledge regarding prevention of suicidal behavior among adolescents. Suicide prevention programmes should be applied to the ‘at risk’ population prior to a suicide attempt.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Suicidal Behavior, Adolescents, Structured Teaching Programme, Pre-university Colleges.

Background:Literature reveals that imparting the knowledge on ODD among parents and teachers will prevent the evolving conduct disorders.Objective:A study was conducted to find out the effectiveness of Self Instructional Module (SIM) to impart the knowledge on ODD among the school teachers and to find out the association between the selected socio- demographic variables with the knowledge level on ODD among school teachers.Methodology:Thirty Primary and high school teachers were selected randomly. A pre-test to assess the knowledge of school teachers on ODD was administered, a self instructional module on ODD was given, followed by administration of post-test by structured interview schedule.Results:The mean, SD and the frequency and percentage distribution of teachers by their pre and post- test knowledge scores revealed that the Self-Instructional Module which was administered to the school teachers was effective in improving their knowledge on ODD. This was proved by paired‘t’ test at 5% level of significance. As regards the association between the selected socio- demographic variables and pre-test knowlegde scores, it was found that only marital status had a significant relationship with knowledge scores at 5% level of significance.

Keywords: Oppositional defiant disorder; Self instructional module; School teacher.

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