ABSTRACT

Mental health is the state of an individual’s social, emotional, and psychological

wellbeing. It is the psychological functioning of a person at a satisfactory level of

passionate and behavioural adjustment. In World health organization report 2001

evident that, mental health problems among children and adolescents have increasing in

recent years and are predicted to increase up to 50% by the year in 2020. Therefore

special effort should be made at individual as well as adolescents to improve their

mental health. So the study was undertaken to “evaluate the effectiveness of video

assisted teaching on knowledge and attitude regarding mental hygiene among

adolescents in Government Children’s home at Kollam district.” Objectives: The

primary objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of video assisted

teaching on knowledge and attitude regarding mental hygiene among adolescents.

Methodology: The conceptual framework used in the study was Imogene King Goal

Attainment Theory. A quantitative approach with preexperimental design (one group

pretest posttest design) was adopted for the study. The sample consists of 35

adolescents were selected by purposive sampling method. Data collected by interview

method using structured knowledge questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using

frequency and percentage distribution, mean, SD, paired ‘t’ test, Chisquare test and

Fishers exact test. Result: The results revealed that among 35 adolescents, before

administering video assisted teaching 77% (27) of them had inadequate knowledge and

23 % (8) of them had moderate knowledge regarding mental hygiene whereas in

posttest 66% (23) of them had moderate knowledge, and 34% (12) of them had

adequate knowledge. Regarding attitude towards mental hygiene in pretest, all 100%

(35) of them had unfavourable attitude and in posttest, all 100% (35) of them had

favourable attitude towards mental hygiene. The mean posttest knowledge score

(M2±SD2=17.71±5.22) adolescent was higher than the mean pretest knowledge score

(M1±SD1=8.23±3.33) with mean difference MD1=9.48 and computed ‘t’ value 19.06,

(p=0.001) was significant at p<0.005. The mean posttest attitude score

(M2±SD2=22.86±5.32) was higher than the mean pretest attitude

score(M1±SD1=7.14±4.04) with mean difference MD2=15.71 and computed ‘t’ value

26.29, (p=0.001) was significant at p<0.005. Computed correlation of coefficient r=0.74

(p=0.058) indicates a positive correlation between the knowledge and attitude regarding

mental hygiene among adolescents. There was a significant association between the

knowledge regarding mental hygiene and adjustment problem (χ2=9.510, p=0.023) was

significant at p<0.05. There was a significant association between the attitude towards

mental hygiene and selected demographic variables of adolescents such as occupation

of the mother (χ2=7.560, p=0.023) and sleeping pattern (p=0.012) was significant at

p<0.05. Conclusion: The study concluded that the video assisted teaching was effective

in improving knowledge and changing attitude regarding mental hygiene among

adolescents. The study recommends that the awareness programme regarding mental

hygiene can be conducted among adolescents.

Keywords: Effectiveness, Knowledge, Attitude, Video assisted teaching, Mental

hygiene