A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Self Instructional modual on Knowledge regarding HPV Vaccination among Adolescent Girls in Selected Arts and Commerce College of Mehasana city Patel Janki* Asst. Professor, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Tal-Visnagar, Dist-Mehsana (Gujarat) *Corresponding Author Email: jankiniravpatel@gmail.com
Online published on 24 October, 2018. Abstract Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been conclusively demonstrated to be the causative agent of cervical cancer. Aims and Objective To assess the pre-test knowledge score regarding HPV vaccination among adolescent girls. To assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module regarding HPV vaccination among the adolescent girls. To find out the association between pre-test knowledge score regarding HPV vaccination among adolescent girls with their selected demographic Material and Methods The data were collected from 40 Adolescent Girls by purposive sampling techniques with the use structured questionnaire and one group pretest posttest design was used. Results ‘Regarding level of knowledge, in pre-test 70% had poor level of knowledge on HPV vaccination, 30% had average level of knowledge and 0% they had good level of knowledge on HPV vaccination. During post-test 62.5% had good knowledge on HPV vaccination. 37.5% had Average knowledge on HPV vaccination. There was highly significant difference found between pretest and posttest knowledge scores and there was no significant association found between pretest knowledge knowledge scores and demographic variables Conclusion Self instructional module found to be effective in improving the knowledge of adolescent girls in selected arts and commerce college of mehasana city” Top Keywords Knowledge, HPV Vaccination, SIM, Adolescent Girls. Top |