Now a day’s people depending on the fast foods and sedentary life style this makes us in a great risk of developing many diseases. The changing life style habits have a great role in this increase in incidence of poly cystic ovarian disease. Poly cystic ovarian syndrome is a complex disorder characterized by excessive androgen production by the ovaries or adrenal which interfere with growth of the ovarian follicles. So it is important to give awareness about poly cystic ovarian disease to our growing adolescence to decreasing the prevalence rate in future. However to our knowledge only a considerable number is aware about the causes management and preventive measures of PCOD and since it is a preventable one to a great extent, we felt the need to conduct a study on it. Hence the researchers thought of taking the task of assessing the knowledge of adolescent girls to impart knowledge through a structured teaching programme which will facilitate prevention of poly cystic ovarian disease in their future life. The study was conducted among 50 first year BSc nursing students, Holy Cross College of nursing, Kollam. One group pre test post test research design was used and the samples were selected by purposive sampling. The demographic variables were used to assess the sample characteristics and structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the level of knowledge regarding poly cystic ovarian disease. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that the average pretest and postest knowledge score was 11.96% and 16.78 respectively. The teaching programme was found to be effective in improving the knowledge (t = 23.81, p < 0.05) regarding poly cystic ovarian disease. There was significant association between knowledge regarding poly cystic ovarian disease and demographic variables of adolescent girls. Hence the study concluded that the knowledge on poly cystic ovarian disease among adolescent girls could be improved by STP.
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