World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAMME REGARDING PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME FOR THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS IN SELECTED SCHOOLS OF B G NAGARA

Kavitha N. K.* and Chethan B. S.

ABSTRACT

Mental health is one of the most important issues in psychology and psychiatry and mental illness is rising
dangerously. Worldwide research indicates that the prevalence of mental and emotional disorder and behaviour in
adolescents, especially girls, has been increased significantly in recent years. While emotional disorders have been
more in girls than boys, which may be due to the high record of limitations emerge from gender stereotypes.
Objectives: To assess the pre-test knowledge level of teenage girls regarding premenstrual syndrome. To assess
the post-test knowledge. To find the effectiveness of mental health training programme by comparing pre-test &
post-test knowledge score. To find the association between pre-test knowledge scores with selected socio
demographic variables. Methods: A Pre experimental one group pertest - post-test deign was used to assess the
effectiveness of mental health training programme regarding premenstrual syndrome. Non-probability convenient
sampling technique used to select 50 teenage girls age between 13 – 16 years by using the tool structured
knowledge questionnaire. Results: The result showed that there was a significant difference between the mean
post-test knowledge score (18.32) & mean pre-test knowledge score (8.12). The computed ‘t’ value 87.12 showed a
significant difference between the mean post-test knowledge score & pre-test knowledge score at 5 % level of
significance (t(49)=1.676), hence H1 was accepted, there was significant association between gain in knowledge
score with the demographic variables like stay in hostel, religion, education, residing area & occupation of mother
at 5% level of significance, hence H2 was accepted. Conclusion: The study's findings concluded that the mental
health training programme regarding premenstrual syndrome was effective in increasing the knowledge of teenage
girls.

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