Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Programme on Knowledge About Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Among Adolescent Girls in a Selected School, Chennai

Abstract

India have 22.5% of adolescent girls which comprises larger proportion of the population. They have to be given more attention because of speedy physical growth, secondary sex characteristics, physiological and psychological development. The major complication of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is infertility in women which is associated with an ovulation.  Most of the women may not be aware of their PCOS till they want to become pregnant. Henceforth this study creates awareness regarding PCOS among adolescent girls to modify their behavior and prevent from complication. The research design used for this study was one group pretest and posttest design to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme regarding PCOS. The sample consists of 30 adolescent girls by using Nonprobability convenient sampling technique. A structured knowledge questionnaire was used for data collection. A structured video assisted teaching programme on PCOS was administered to the adolescent girls and was evaluated. The descriptive and inferential statistics was used for data analysis and the findings revealed that majority 18(60%) of adolescent girls had moderate knowledge and 10(33%) of them had adequate knowledge level and only 2(7%) had inadequate knowledge on PCOS in posttest. The study concluded that adolescent girl’s knowledge on PCOS was improved after the video assisted teaching programme and no significant association between knowledge level and selected demographic variables of adolescent girls.