BACKGROUND: Anorexia nervosa, commonly referred to as anorexia, is an eating disorder marked by an unusually low body weight, a profound fear of weight gain, and a distorted view of one's body weight. Individuals suffering from anorexia attach great importance to managing their weight and body shape, using extreme measures that often severely disrupt their daily lives. AIM: The main aim of the study was to assess the knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa among the adolescent girls of selected colleges of district Amritsar. METHODS: Quantitative research approach and pre-experimental research design was used. It was conducted over 60 adolescent girls and sample was collected by using non-probability sampling technique. Self-structured questionnaires were used to assess the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme regarding anorexia nervosa among the adolescent girls. The data was tabulated, analysed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics in accordance with objectives and hypothesis formulated for the current study. RESULTS: The result showed that the pre-test level of knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa among adolescent girls reveals that most of the adolescent girls 39(65%) girls had inadequate knowledge regarding the anorexia nervosa, followed by 21(35%) adolscent girls had moderately adequate knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa, and nobody had adequate knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa and in post test majority of adolescent girls 33(55%) had gained adequate knowledge and 27(45%) had gained moderately adequate knowledge and nobody had inadequate knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa.The mean percentage of knowledge score of post-test (79.67) was higher than pre-test (48.28) which was compared by using paired t test with calculated value (t=28.34 *sig p= 0.01) indicates highly significant. CONCLUSIONS: The study concluded that Structured Teaching Programme was effective in improving knowledge regarding anorexia nervosa among the adolescent girls. There was no significant association of post-test knowledge with their selected socio- demographic variables Age, Religion, Area of residence, Mother’s educational status, Occupation of father, habit of food pattern, Number of meals per day, Source of information and significantly associated with Type of family at p<0.01 and monthly income at p<0.05. So, researcher accepts research hypothesis H1
Structured Teaching Programme, knowledge, anorexia nervosa, adolescent girls.
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