• Gaytri Vaijnath Kale
• Lt. Col Rosamma Basil

Today all over the world, teenage pregnancy is, emerging as a serious problem, approximately 15 million pregnancies occur every year among young women aged 15-19 years. Objective of the study, To assess the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding teenage pregnancy and its complications among adolescent girls. To assess the pre-test knowledge of adolescent girls on teenage pregnancy and its complications. To assess the post-test knowledge on teenage pregnancy and its complications. To associate the pre-test knowledge score with selected demographic variables. METHOD-The study was Quasi-experimental one group pre-test post research in nature. Quantitative research approach was adopted for study. Sample size was 60, 9th and 10th standard adolescent girls. Simple random sampling technique was used for the collection of data. A prior formal permission was obtained from the concerned school authority for conducting the study. Informed consent from all the participants parents and informed accent from participants was obtained prior to the study. A 30 minute prior to the intervention the pre-test was conducted. The planned teaching programme regarding teenage pregnancy and its complications among participants were provided to the sample. After seven days of intervention, post-test was conducted. The data was analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. In the pretest majority of girls where having average score (9-16) i.e. 83% whereas 1.7 % (17 to 25) had good knowledge about teenage pregnancy and its complications in the post-test 58.3% (9-16) of adolescent girls had average knowledge whereas 0.% of adolescent girl had poor knowledge of teenage pregnancy and its complications

Teenage Pregnancy: World Health Organization defines “Teenage pregnancy as a pregnancy of a girl aged 15 to 19 years.10 In this study teenage pregnancy means a girl gets pregnant between the ages 15 – 19 years.,Adolescent Girls: According to WHO Adolescents girl is an individual between 10-19 years age group.11 In this study adolescent girls means the girls who are studying in 9th and 10th standard.,Planned teaching programme: According to oxford dictionary “It refers to systematically planned teaching programme, designed to provide information.”12 In this study planned teaching programme designed to provide information on teenage pregnancy and its complications to adolescent girls.

"A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme (PTP) on knowledge regarding teenage pregnancy and its complications among adolescent girls in selected schools of selected city.”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 2, page no.f790-f795, February-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2402595.pdf

"A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme (PTP) on knowledge regarding teenage pregnancy and its complications among adolescent girls in selected schools of selected city.”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 2, page no. ppf790-f795, February-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2402595.pdf