Most smokers start smoking during their adolescence or early adult years. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are approximately 120 million smokers in India. Approximately 9 lakhs people die every year in India due to smoking. A Quasi experimental with one group pre-test post-test design study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching Programme on smoking hazards among adolescents. Simple random technique was used to select 100 young adolescents and data was collected through structured knowledge questionnaire. The results revealed that mean percentage of posttest knowledge score (14.75+1.38) was higher than the mean percentage of pre-test score (7.04+1.43). Although there were no significant association found between selected demographic variables except friend smoking and family smoking with pre- test knowledge score at the level of p<0.05.Hence the structured teaching Programme was significantly proved to be an effective method to improve the knowledge regarding smoking hazards among adolescent boys.
Structured teaching Programme, Smoking hazards, Knowledge, Adolescents
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