Background: The infection is not limited to bladder alone it also involves the kidneys it occurs more in older children and adolescent an increased risk of recurrent urinary tract infection symptoms included burning during micturition increased frequency of micturition and lower abdominal pain. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of adolescent girls regarding prevention of urinary tract infection as well as to provide information to them about regarding prevention of urinary tract infection. Methods: The research approach adopted for this study is a Quantitative research approach. The research design was pre-test and post-test design. The pilot study was conducted at Higher Secondary School at Bhopal. A Convenient sampling technique was used. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assessing the prevention of urinary tract infection among adolescent girls. The final study was conducted with 30 sample in schools was given followed by posttest after 7 days using the same pretest tools. The data collected was analyzed using inferential statistics. Results: The computed ‘t’ value (t=9.3235) was higher than the table value (t=2.04) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence, the research hypothesis (H1) was accepted. This indicates that the planned teaching program was effective in increasing the knowledge score of Community people regarding environmental health. Conclusion: The study concluded that the information was given with the aid of structure teaching programme which included various aspects such as introduction, causes, types, complication and management, which will help the adolescent girls to improve their knowledge and to adopt the safe practice.
Effectiveness, Urinary tract, Adolescent girl
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