A STUDY TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE OF STUDENTS TOWARDS DRUG ABUSE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SELECTED COLLEGE AT INDORE (M.P)
Abstract
The aim of this study was to find out the effectivness of health education programme in improving the knowledge of college students on drug and its adverse effects to evaluate it’s effectivness of health education programme and find out the knowledge regarding drug abuse among students, and selected demographic variables.A deswas carried out 120 students who are undergoing their pre-university course in science, Arts, or Commerce in Indore. Self administraed tool multiple choice statements wre used to evaluate the knowledge on drug abuse before and after health education programme. Data was analyzed by chi-square and paired t-test. The result showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge score as marked gain in knowledge after it’s health education programme (40.3).The difference in knowledge statistically significant at 0.05 level(t(119)= 37.744,P≤0.05) The significance was at 0.05 level.Thus by this study one can conclude that health teaching programme helps to improve the knowledge of students on drug abuse .
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