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Anuchitra, S.
- A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Impact of Early Marriage, Pregnancy among Adolescent Girls in Selected Rural High Schools of Belgaum, Karnataka
Authors
1 Department of OBG (N), KLEU’s Institute of Nursing Sciences, Belgaum, IN
2 Dept. of OBG (N), P.D. Bharatesh College of Nursing, Belgaum, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 4, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 61-69Abstract
Marriage is found in all cultures. It is a process by which individuals select their life partners. In India adolescents girls face number of problems such as dropout of school, malnourished, working in vulnerable situations, misguidance from peer group and siblings, more prone for early marriage and are sexually active. Early (child) Marriage is one of the burning problems of Indian society. In India, despite amended laws advocating 18 as the legal minimum age at marriage for females, a substantial proportion i.e. every third adolescent girl in the age group of 15-19 year is married and every second married adolescent girl has given birth to a child.
OBJECTIVES: To assess the knowledge and attitude, also to design and implement and to know the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on impact of early marriage, pregnancy among adolescent girls. To correlate, find the association between knowledge and attitude with selected demographic variables on impact of early marriage, pregnancy among adolescent girls.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a true experimental study conducted to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme among 60 adolescent girls (aged between 13year to 17year, either married and unmarried) who were studying in 8th, 9th and10th standard from selected rural high schools of Belgaum, Karnataka using Probability-simple random sampling technique. A questionnaire was designed to tap the information about on impact of early marriage, pregnancy and planned teaching program was been conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls.
RESULTS: the present study showed that significant gain in knowledge of experimental group after the planned teaching programme on impact of early marriage, pregnancy. The mean score of knowledge of experimental group is 33.03± 1.86 and mean score of knowledge of control group 23.86±3.44.The mean attitude score of experimental group is 37.93±4.78. It indicates that the knowledge of adolescents girls on impact of early marriage, pregnancy is positively correlated with attitude (r = 0.386 P>0.05).
CONCLUSION: The findings of this study support the need of delaying early marriage for the better health of the mother as well as baby. The study proved that there was a significant correlation between knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls.
Keywords
Adolescents Girl, Early Marriage, Early Pregnancy, Planned Teaching Programme, Rural High-School.
- Child Labour and their Physical Problems
Authors
1 P.D. Bharatesh College of Nursing, Halaga, Belgaum, Karnataka, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 3, No 3 (2013), Pagination: 142-149Abstract
Child labour indicates employment of child for economic wage earning work and the child is subjected to various hazards related to his mental, physical and social health. The child loses his "childhood" abruptly and is prematurely pushed to live an adult life and shoulder responsibilities. A summary by the ILO showed that, the world's 211 million working children aged from 5 to 14 were situated in the regions of the world, which is serious issue internationally.
Objective: To assess the knowledge and attitude on child labour among parents and to rule out the physical health problems of working children.
Methods: In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a non experimental research design with a descriptive approach was adopted. 80 parents of working children were interviewed using non probability purposive sampling technique.
Result: The result reveled that; majority (72.5%) of parents had moderately adequate knowledge on child labour. The mean score was 56.37 ± 11.61, parental attitude on child labour explains that, Majority (95%) of parents had positive attitude on child labour. The mean score was 70.26 ± 5.94 and identification of common health problems among working children shows that, Majority (92.5%) of children had moderate health problems which needs some medical intervention and (2.5%) of them had sever health problems which need urgent medical intervention. The mean score was 50.75 ± 5.36.
Findings of the study showed that there is a positive correlation between parental knowledge and attitude on child labour (r= 0.33, P<0.01). There is a low positive correlation between common health problems and parental knowledge (r=0.08) and also there is a low positive correlation between attitude and health problems (r=0.1). There was a significant association between the parental knowledge and Father's Education and there was a significant association between the parental attitude and age, monthly income of parents and other demographic variables like age, area of residence, habits, monthly income, and reason for child labour are not associated. There was no significant association between common health problems and demographic variables of working child.