• Mrs. Pradnya Vilas Jadhav

Disaster as ‘any occurrence that causes damage, economic destruction, loss of human life and deterioration in health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community or area. Disaster is the occurrence of a sudden or major misfortune, which disrupts the basic fabric, and normal functioning of a society. Keeping in view that Fire management, disaster preparedness is creating a condition or state to reduce hazards and risk. This includes the use of mitigation, prevention and pre-attack efforts with community involvement is an important to conduct study to assess effectiveness of structured teaching on knowledge regarding disaster (Fire) preparedness among adolescent at selected Junior colleges in Pune city. The present study title: A study to assess effectiveness of structured teaching on knowledge regarding disaster (Fire) preparedness among adolescent at selected Junior colleges in Pune city. The objective of the study to assess the knowledge, to assess the knowledge regarding disaster (Fire) preparedness among adolescent after structured teaching and to compare the knowledge scores before and after structured teaching to see the effectiveness, to associate the findings with selected demographic variable. Material and Methods: In present study, researcher adopted pre experimental one group-Pre- test post-test design. Study carried out on 100 samples .The non-probability convenient sampling technique was used to data was collected using the demographic profile and structured questionnaire on knowledge regarding disaster (Fire) preparedness among adolescent at selected Junior colleges Data was analyzed statistically. Ethical clearance was taken from Institutional ethics committee. Data analysis was done mainly using descriptive statistics. Result: The mean post test score of 33.5, student improved their knowledge about disaster preparedness. There is almost 14% increase in the knowledge of the students in relation to disaster preparedness after structured teaching. Finding related to compare pretest and post knowledge Scores in the pretest and posttest ‘paired t’ test was applied. Mean of pretest was 19.86 and posttest was 33.5 and mean difference was 13.64. p value is 0 which is less than 0.05 therefore it is highly significant. This shows that there is difference between pretest and post test scores. This indicated that after structured teaching there is increase in the knowledge scores. .Conclusion: A finding of research and supporting literature shows that structured teaching is always effective to enhance the knowledge level of the people. Recommendation: • The study can be conducted on basis of the assessing knowledge, attitude and practice. Also carried out for effectiveness of STP using different teaching method .A comparative study can be done between urban and rural adolescent students.

Assess, Effectiveness, Structured teaching, Knowledge, Disaster, Fire, Preparedness, Adolescent

"A study to assess effectiveness of structured teaching on knowledge regarding disaster (Fire) preparedness among adolescent at selected Junior colleges in Pune city.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no.172-181, June-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006365.pdf

"A study to assess effectiveness of structured teaching on knowledge regarding disaster (Fire) preparedness among adolescent at selected Junior colleges in Pune city.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no. pp172-181, June-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2006365.pdf