STRESS REDUCTION
TECHNIQUES
AUTHOR: S.K. Mohana
sundhari
KEY: stress, structured-teaching programme, stress-reduction
techniques, and hostel.
TITLE:
“A study to assess the effectiveness
of structured-teaching programme on stress-reduction techniques among
adolescent girls aged 15-18 years staying in a selected hostel at Chidambaram”
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
•
To
assess the pre-test knowledge regarding stress-reduction techniques among
adolescent girls aged 15-18 years staying in a selected hostel at Chidambaram.
• To evaluate the
effectiveness of structured-teaching programme regarding stress-reduction
techniques among adolescent girls aged 15-18 years staying in a selected hostel
at Chidambaram.
•
To
associate the selected demographic variables such as age, religion, educational
status, occupation of the parents, educational status of the parents and number of siblings with the knowledge
regarding stress-reduction techniques.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND
METHODOLOGY:
The
one group pre-test and post-test design
was adopted to assess the effectiveness of structured-teaching programme on
stress reduction techniques among adolescent girls aged 15 - 18 years. The General System Theory was adopted
for conceptual frame work.
A total of 60 adolescent girls staying in the Nandhanar girl’s
hostel were selected by using simple random sampling techniques.
The
instrument used for the study was a structured-questionnaire which consists of
two sections. The first section consists of the demographic variables of the
adolescent girls and the second section consists of 50 closed-ended questions
to assess the knowledge regarding stress-reduction techniques.
The structured-teaching programme on stress-reduction techniques
was provided through Lap top for a period of 30 minutes. A post-test was given
after 7 days. The data were analyzed using the descriptive and inferential statistics.
RESULT:
•
The
knowledge score of the adolescent girls was inadequate before STP. After the
LCD teaching programme 18.33% had moderately adequate knowledge and 81.67% had
adequate knowledge.
•
The
effectiveness of LCD teaching programme was statistically tested by paired‘t’
value and the result found to be significant at p<0.001 level.
•
There
was no significant relationship between demographic variables and pre-test knowledge
of subjects on stress-reduction techniques.
CONCLUSION:
These result demonstrated that STP was
effective in improving the knowledge on stress-reduction techniques among
adolescent girls who are staying in the hostel
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