ABSTRACT:
The Quantitative evaluative approach with pre- experimental one group pre test and post test design was used in the study to determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding Risk factors and Prevention of Suicidal Behaviour among Adolescents. The conceptual framework for the study was based on Modified Imogene king’s goal attainment theory. The tool used in this study consists of three sections. Section one was demographic variables and section two was structured self administered questionnaire to assess the pretest and post test knowledge and section three was structured teaching programme regarding risk factors and prevention of suicidal behavior. Systematic purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples, and data were collected from 60 adolescents of AVK College, Bangalore.The paired ‘t’ test value is 7.35 which is significantly higher than the table value of 2.0009 at p=0.05 level. Thus the structured teaching programme is effective in improving the knowledge regarding Risk factors and Preventive measures for Suicidal Behavior among Adolescents.The results of the tests conducted using chi-square tests show that the significant association between the levels of knowledge of the adolescent with their selected demographic variables with sex (? 2 = 0.886), Monthly income of family (? 2 = 10.69) were statistically significant and there no significant association between other variables like age, education of mother, occupation of family, type of family, has any family member/ friend attempted or committed suicide, History of mental illness in your family and Source of information.There is a significant increase in knowledge score of adolescents after structured teaching programme. Therefore, it is concluded that the structured teaching programme is highly effective in increasing the knowledge of adolescents on Risk factors and Preventive measures for Suicidal Behavior.