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Abstract
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Suicide is a growing health problem in the world. Adolescent students are the most vulnerable group for suicide. The great tragedy about suicide among students is that it takes place despite the suicidal students giving out warning signals. A school based teaching programme (SBTP) on knowledge and attitude of teachers regarding 'prevention of suicide among students' is important to make the teachers aware and which will enable them to prevent suicide among students. The main objective of the study is to determine the effectiveness of school based teaching programme on knowledge and attitude of teachers regarding prevention of suicide among students in selected schools.
The conceptual framework adopted for the study was based on the "Modified Imogene King's Goal attainment Theory. An evaluative approach with pre-experimental (one group pre-test post-test) design was adopted for the study in order to determine the effectiveness of school. based teaching programme (SBTP) on knowledge and attitude of teachers regarding 'prevention of suicide among students' in selected schools, Mangalore. The tool used for the study was structured knowledge questionnaire and attitude scale. The study result shows that the difference between the mean posttest and the mean pre-test knowledge scores was found to be statistically significant t =6.11 (t29 =2.05, p<0.05) which shows that the school based teaching programme was effective in gaining the knowledge score of teachers regarding prevention of suicide among students. The difference between the mean post-test and the mean pre-test attitude scores was found to be statistically significant t =4.18 (t29 =2.05, p<0.05) which shows that the school based teaching programme was effective in gaining the attitude score of teachers towards regarding prevention of suicide among students. The results also shows that there was a significant association between pre-test knowledge score and selected demographic variable of previous knowledge regarding prevention of suicide and there was no association between the pre-test knowledge score and other variables like age, gender, religion, marital status, education, and years of teaching experience.
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