International Journal of Advances in Nursing Management

The improvement of knowledge regarding prevention of cardio vascular disease among adolescents has an important play in enabling the effectiveness of planned teaching programme as an independence nursing intervention. The research design adopted was pre-experimental one group pre-test post test. The conceptual frame work for this study was based on Hochbaum (1950) health belief model. The study had been conducted in H. N. Shukla arts and commerce college, Rajkot. The data were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical method paired ‘t’ test was used to evaluating the effective of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of cardio vascular disease. The obtained calculated value was 12.29, which shows highly significant at the level of 0.001. The findings of the study revealed, that planned teaching programme was effectiveness in improving knowledge regarding prevention of cardio vascular disease.