Teen age pregnancy

2. PAPER PRESENTATION
ON
TEENAGE PREGNANCY

3. RESEARCHER

4. INTRODUCTION

5. A teenage pregnancy is defined as a pregnancy in
a young women who has not reached her 20th
birthday when the pregnancy ends.
The worldwide incidence of premature
birth & low birth weight is higher among
adolescent mothers.

6. NEED OF THE STUDY

7. Having a child , at any age , is completely life
changing, especially as a teenager having a
child at this age can drastically affect these
vital stages in person’s life. Being a pregnant
teen can be a great issue. The act of being
pregnant teen itself has shown to cause stress,
anxiety and even depression. May be the teen
is afraid to tell her parents. Whatever the case
may be, the whole situation is too much to
hurdable for the teens.

8. SIGNIFICANT IN NURSING

9. Many complication arise due to teen
pregnancy , pregnant teenagers faces
many of the obstetrics issues

11. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

12. “A study to assess the effectiveness of
structured teaching programme on
knowledge regarding teenage pregnancy
among adolescent girls of higher secondary
school at Jodhpur and Sikar Districts
(Rajasthan)”.

13. TEENAGE PREGNANCY

15. OBJECTIVES OF THE
STUDY

16. To assess the pre-test knowledge regarding
teenage pregnancy among adolescent girls.
To assess the effectiveness of structured
teaching programme among adolescent girls
of higher secondary regarding teenage
pregnancy.

17. To compare the mean pretest knowledge
score & post test knowledge score.
To find out the association between pretest
knowledge and selected demographic
variables.

18. ASSUMPTION

19. To assess the knowledge regarding teenage
pregnancy among Adolescent Girls .
To Improve the knowledge regarding teenage
pregnancy among Adolescent Girls
To help the girls of higher secondary school to
understand what are the preventive measures
& why it is necessary for the Mothers,
children's and for the family.

20. HYPOTHESIS

21. H1- There will be significant increase in level
of knowledge regarding teenage
pregnancy among adolescent student
girls .
H2- There will be significant association of pre-
test knowledge score with the selected
demographic variable.

22. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
METHODS & PROCEDURES

23. RESEARCH APPROACH: An Evaluating
approach was considered to be an appropriate
for the study.
THE RESEARCH DESIGN:
Pre Experimental Design one group pre test
post test design.
Sampling Technique: The sample was
selected by simple random sampling

24. SETTING: The study was conducted at selected
higher secondary school at Jodhpur & Sikar
Districts (Rajasthan)
POPULATION: The population for this study
was adolescent girls of selected Jodhpur & Sikar
Districts (Rajasthan)

25. SAMPLE: Adolescent student girls who met
the inclusion criteria were selected as sample
SAMPLE SIZE: The sample size for the study
are 60.

26. SAMPLING CRITERIA

27. Inclusion Criteria
The girls student those who are studying in
the school.
Those who knows either Hindi or English
Language.
Those whose age is in between 13-18 years.

28. Exclusive Criteria
Those who are not participated in study.
Those whose age is either below 13 year or
above 18 years.

29. TOOL OF RESEARCH

30. Structured questioner was used to assess the
effectiveness of structured teaching program on
knowledge regarding teenage pregnancy
among adolescent girls of higher secondary school at
Jodhpur and Sikar Districts (Rajasthan)”.
Section A was demographic
Section B was structured knowledge questioner
regarding postnatal care after caesarean section

31. DATA - ANALYSIS:

32. Descriptive
and
Inferential
tests.
DATA
ANALYSIS

33. FINDINGS

34. Major Findings
The results of the study revealed that 50.00%
of the adolescent girls were in the age group of
13-14 years,36.67% were in the age group of
15-16 year age group while 13.3% were in the
range from 17-18 years. 0.0% were studying in
class XI ,13.3% were studying XII
class,71.7% were Hindus,21.7% were from
Muslim religion and 3.3% were Christian &
Sikh religions.

35. Description of socio-demographic variables
Demographic
Variable (Criteria)
Population
particulars
Frequency
(N=60)
Frequency
Percentage%
Age
(In Years)
13-14 30 50.00%
15-16 22 36.67%
17-18 08 13.33%
Total 60 100.0

36. Age of Adolescent student Girls
50%
37%
13%
13-14
15-16
17-18

37. Pie Diagram Showing distribution
72%
22%
3%
3%
RELIGION OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS
Hindu
Muslim
Christian
Sikhs

38. 28.33%
21.67%
36.67%
13.33%
Educational status of student
girls
IX
X
XI
XII

39. 55.00% were from Nuclear family and 45.00%
were from Joint Family. 48.3% Fathers were
graduate while 25.0% mothers were graduate
15.00% & 23.3% fathers and mothers
respectively had primary education while
23.3% and 36.7% fathers and mothers were
Middle passed, 48.3% and 25.0% were passed
Higher secondary.

40.  Hence the status of parental education
reflected that fathers were more educated
as compared to Mothers education.
 Result Indicated that only 55.0% were
belongs to good knowledge, 41.7%
subjects had poor level & 3.3% had
Excellent Level of Knowledge.

41. 8.2
3.2
1.4
9
Educational status of Mother of
Studies subject
Primary
Middle
Higher Secondary
Graduate

42. RESULTS

43. • In pretest 41.7% of Adolescent student girls
were having poor level of knowledge score and
55.0%of them had good & 3.3 % were having
Excellent level of knowledge score.
• In post test 3.3% of Adolescent student girls were
having poor level of knowledge score and 55.0%of
them had good level of knowledge score , 41.7%
were from Excellent level of knowledge .

44. Bar diagram showing the pretest & posttest
knowledge score of the school going adolescent
girls.

45. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
POOR (0-8) GOOD (9-16) EXCELLENT (17-25)
25
33
2
PRE-TEST SCORE (LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE)
PRETEST
SCORE

46. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
POOR (0-8) GOOD (9-16) EXCELLENT (17-
25)
2
33
25
POST- TEST SCORE (LEVEL OF
KNOWLEDGE)
POST
TEST
SCORE

47. Comparison of knowledge scores
between Pre-test and post- test
Knowledge Mean
(x)
Std.Error
of Mean
D.F t-Value Level of
significance
Pre-test 9.03 0.394 59 15.97
0.001*
(* Indication
highly
significant)
Post-test 15.33

48. CONCLUSION

49. After the detailed analysis , this study leads to
the following conclusion: 41.7% student girls
have poor knowledge regarding the teenage
pregnancy while 3.30% were found average in
knowledge.

50. After the implementation of structured
teaching programme, there is significant
increase in knowledge of student girls
regarding the teenage pregnancy. Which is
calculated by t- test and the result was 15.97