• SHUBANA AAZMEEN
• ZUHA FAROOQ

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), which occurs 7–14 days before the onset of menstruation and subsides with the commencement of menstrual flow, affects women during their reproductive age, and is associated with physical, psychological and behavioural changes A quasi-experimental non- randomized control group pre-test post-test research design was used to assess the effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding PMS and its management among adolescent girls. A total of 30 adolescent girls 15 in experimental and 15 in control group were selected through non- probability purposive sampling technique. A Self-structured Knowledge Questionnaire was constructed for assessing the knowledge of adolescent girls regards PMS and its management. Pre-test of both the groups was conducted and STP was administered only to the Experimental group on the same day. The post- test was conducted after 5 days in both experimental and control groups. The collected data were analysed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentage, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics of Chi - square (x2 ) and correlation coefficient was used to analyse the data. Result: It revealed that the pre-test mean score of knowledge among adolescent girls in experimental group was 8.27 with a SD +/- 3.7. Similarly the pre-test mean score of knowledge among adolescent girls in control group was 6.07with a SD +/- 3.1. The observed ‘t’ value of 1.761, P value of 0.89 was lower than the table value indicating that the observed difference in mean score among experimental and control group in the pre-test was not significant. The post-test mean Score of knowledge among adolescent girls in experimental group after administration of STP were 32.47 with a SD +/- 3.09. Similarly the Mean score of knowledge among adolescent girls in the control group was 10.80 with a SD +/- 3.96 and un-paired ‘t’ test was computed to show whether there was any significance difference in mean knowledge score of experimental and control group. The observed ‘t’ value of 16.6 was higher than that of table value and it was inferred that there was a statistical significance and result was highly significant at P < 0.001. Thus according to our results STP on PMS and it's management was successful in improving the knowledge of adolescent girls.

"A Quasi Experimental Study to assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program (STP) on knowledge regarding Premenstrual Syndrome and its Management among Adolescent girls in selected High Schools of District Budgam, Kashmir.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no.d978-d990, March-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2503411.pdf

"A Quasi Experimental Study to assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program (STP) on knowledge regarding Premenstrual Syndrome and its Management among Adolescent girls in selected High Schools of District Budgam, Kashmir.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no. ppd978-d990, March-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2503411.pdf