American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

AN EVALUATIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING ILL EFFECTS OF CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES AMONG ADOLESCENTS OF SELECTED SCHOOLS OF AMRITSAR, PUNJAB

Kamalpreet kaur, Dr.Victor Devasirvadam

Kanupreet1987@gmail.com

Ill Effects, Consanguinous Marriage, Adolescents Country: india, subject area: nursing and Health Professions.

Consanguineous marriage is common where individuals prefer to marry within their clan. consanguineous unions range from cousin-cousin to more distant relatedness and their prevalence varies by culture. Consanguinity has been known to increase the chance of the husband and wife carrying an identical gender derived from a common ancestor. Children of such marriage therefore are at great risk of being homozygous or harmful gene and consequently suffer autosomal recessive genetic disorder. Consanguineous marriages are marriages contracted between blood relatives. Aim of the study: The present study aimed to assess the effectiveness of structure teaching programme on knowledge regarding ill effects of consanguineous marriages among adolescents. Methods and material: The research design selected for the present study was one group pretest posttest pre-experimental design. The tool used was a self-structured knowledge questionnaire. 100 adolescents were selected using random sampling technique for the study. Study was conducted at various schools of Amritsar, Punjab. Result: The study findings revealed that According to pretest (69%) adolescents had poor knowledge, (31%) had average knowledge and none of them had good knowledge. Whereas according to post test (54%) adolescents had good knowledge and (46%) had average knowledge and none of them had poor knowledge. On comparison post-test mean value 15.96 i.e. higher than pre-test mean value i.e. 7.25. The mean difference between pretest and posttest knowledge scores were calculated by t-test and was found to be statistically significant at p<0.05. Conclusion: The results shows that majority of subjects had poor knowledge regarding ill effects of consanguineous marriages in pre-test but after giving Structured Teaching Programme majority of the subjects had a good knowledge. With age, gender, religion, area of living, family income, source of information knowledge found to be non-significant at p<0.05 on the other hand there is association of knowledge regarding ill effects of consanguineous marriages among adolescents with type of family, education of parents