Video Assisted Teaching on Awareness Regarding Identification Symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Among Adolescent Girls

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a condition in which the woman has an imbalance of female sex hormones. It is a hyper androgenic disorder associated with chronic oligo-anovulation and polycystic ovarian morphology. This may lead to changes in the menstrual cycle, cyst in the ovary, failure to conceive and other health problems. Most women worried about this imbalance of female sex hormone so the present study aim to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching on awareness regarding identification symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome among adolescent girls. In these study 40 adolescent girls was selected by using purposive sampling techniques. Pre intervention awareness level was assessed by Self-structured awareness questionnaire. The data collected was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The average (Mean ± Standard Deviation) awareness scoring in pretest to measure the pre-existed awareness regarding identification symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome found to be 6.33±1.4 points and the awareness score at post-test stage found to be13.1±1.3 points. The mean difference of 6.77 points in knowledge scoring between pretest and post-test was statistically strongly significant (p > 0.05) which clearly showed the effectiveness of Video Assisted teaching on awareness of adolescent girls regarding identification symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. The positive mean difference of knowledge score shows that Video Assisted teaching was effective.