Adolescent age group is a very susceptible group. These children are in phase of transformation from children to adulthood. Most adolescence manages this transformation but many of them are indulged in behaviors like sexual experimentation, exploration and promiscuity, and through which lands in the problem of unmarried motherhood, abortions, STDs/HIV infection, sexual abuse. India has the largest population of adolescents in the world (about 243 million), among them 69.5% getting married before 20 years of age, about 2.47% cases of HIV infected persons in the country and with sexually transmitted diseases. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching program on education in selected Nursing College of Dehradun in Uttarakhand.The quantitative evaluative research approach was used. Setting: - Himalayan College of Nursing, Jolly grant, Dehradun, Sample:-consecutive sample of 44 General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) students. Tool:-self structure questionnaire to assess the knowledge regarding sex education was prepared. Intervention: - planned teaching programme on sex education.The finding of the study revealed that post- test knowledge score is significantly higher than pre- test knowledge score. The different between pre- test and post- test shows difference at the level of p<0.005. There was no significant association between pre- test knowledge score and demographic variables.
planned teaching program, effectiveness, GNM students, Sex education
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