A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of STP on Knowledge Regarding Health Hazards of Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviours among Adolescent Girls Studying in B.V.V.S. High School Bagalkot
Authors: S Mokashi Umashri , Hiremath Daneshwari , S. Natekar Dr. Deelip. 
Published: May 2022

India is home to 253 million adolescents. India has the largest Adolescent population in the world, 253 million, and every fifth person is between 10 to 19 years. As per India’s census 2011, Youth (15-24 years) in India constitutes one-fifth (19.1%) of India’s total population. India is expected to have 34.33% share of youth in total population by 2020.As per the 2001 census; about 440 million individuals in India were below 18 years of age and constitute 42% of total population. Unhealthy weight control practices were reported by 37.9% of the females and by 15.9% of the males.
Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is important for overall health and can help you prevent and control many diseases and conditions. If you are overweight or obese, you are at higher risk of developing serious health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, Gallstones, breathing problems and certain cancers. That is why maintaining a healthy weight is so important. Teenagers adopt both healthy balanced diet and exercise, but those who are dissatisfied with their body and want to lose weight adopt smoking, use of laxatives, purging and fasting behaviours. So Raising awareness of the connection between obesity and unhealthy weight control in youth.
Unhealthy weight control behaviours are at risk for depression and development of unhealthy weight control behaviours including using diet pills, purging, or fasting, explications of pathways leading to UWCBS.
Adolescents who feel overweight are more likely to be actively trying to lose weight and may at risk for using harmful weight control behaviours will leads to further complications. The main focus of this study is to provide a positive force to enhance their full of energy and future productivity for the nation in a healthy manner.
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on health hazards of unhealthy weight control behaviours among adolescent girls.
Methods: The present study is a pre experimental: among 100 adolescent girls, using proportional stratified random technique. Here one experimental group of clients were selected with randomization and no control group is used. The data was collected by using the structured close ended knowledge questionnaire. The data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistical in terms of mean, frequency distribution, percentage, paired t test and chi square test.
Results: Comparison of mean percentage of the knowledge scores of the pre test and post – test reveals an increase of 53.51% in the mean knowledge score of the adolescent girls after STP .Comparison of area wise mean and SD of the knowledge scores in the area of knowledge related shows that the pretest mean percentage of knowledge score was 44.76% with mean and SD 9.40±2.91 Where as post test mean percentage of knowledge score was 87.19% with mean and SD 18.31±1.40,Showing an effectiveness of 42.43%. Paired ‘t’ test was used to find out the significance of the difference between the pre-test knowledge and post-test knowledge scores of adolescent girls regarding Health hazards of unhealthy weight control behaviour . As calculated “t” value (6.71) was much higher than table “t’ value (1.96). Showing an effectiveness, The overall findings reveal that the percentage of post-test knowledge score was more when compared to the pre test knowledge score. Hence it indicates that the STP was effective in enhancing the knowledge of adolescent girls on Health hazards of unhealthy weight control behaviour.
Conclusion: The overall findings of the study clearly show that the structured teaching programme was significantly effective in improving the knowledge level of Adolescent girls regarding Health hazards of Unhealthy weight control behaviour.

Keywords: Assess, Effectiveness, Structured teaching programme, Knowledge, Health hazards, Unhealthy weight control behaviour, Adolescent girls.