Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding home remedies in reducing dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls studying at MMINSR SKIMS, Soura.
Abstract
The study was conducted with the aim to assess the knowledge of adolescent girls regarding home remedies in reducing dysmenorrhea so that awareness programme could be formed to make adolescents girls aware about it.
Title of the study: “A study to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on knowledge regarding home remedies in reducing dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls studying at MMINSR SKIMS, Soura Srinagar.”
Objectives: To assess the pre-test and post-test knowledge of adolescent girls regarding home remedies in reducing dysmenorrhea, to compare the pre-test and post-test knowledge scores and to find the association between pre-test knowledge scores and their selected demographic/clinical variables (age, residence, type of family, fathers education, fathers occupation, mothers education, mothers occupation, age at menarche, duration of menstrual periods, type of menstrual flow, pattern of menstrual cycles, whether a case of dysmenorrhea).
Methodology: Pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used in the present study on 50 B.Sc. Nursing 3rd semester and 2nd year female students of MMINSR, SKIMS, selected by purposive sampling technique. A Self-structured questionnaire was used to collect data.
Pre-test was conducted on day one followed by the administration of intervention on the same day using video assisted teaching programme regarding home remedies in reducing dysmenorrhea. Post-test was conducted on day four.
Findings related to demographic and clinical variables. The findings of the present study revealed that Majority (80%) of the study subjects were in the age group of <22 years. Maximum (68%) of subjects belonged to rural areas. Majority (84%) number of study subjects belonged to nuclear families. About half (48%) of the study subjects had fathers’ educational status of graduation and above. Maximum (60%) of the subjects had their father’s occupation
as Government employees. About half (50%) of the study subjects had mothers with primary education. Majority (88%) of the mothers of study subjects are homemakers.
Maximum (72%) of the study subjects attained menarche before age of 14 years. About half (54%) of study subjects had menstrual periods lasting for 3-5 days. Maximum (74%) of the study subjects were having moderate menstrual periods. Majority (84%) of the study subjects were having regular menstrual periods Half (42%) of the study subjects complained of dysmenorrhea Findings related to knowledge level: On pre-test scores, maximum (64%) of the subjects had poor knowledge, whereas only 36% had average knowledge and none of the study subjects had good knowledge. On posts test scores all (100%) of the subjects had good knowledge and noneof the subjects had poor or average knowledge.
How to cite this article:
Malik D, Kachroo M, Akhtar K, Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Home Remedies in Reducing Dysmenorrhea Among Adolescent
Girls Studying at MMINSR SKIMS, Soura. Ind J Holist Nurs. 2023;14(4):28-35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2348.2133.202316
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