2024, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Part A

Background: Urinary tract infection is the bacterial infections, most often caused by an ascending infection starting at the external urinary meatus and progressing towards the urinary bladder and kidneys. It is highly prevalent among adolescent girls with a 3.5% incidence rate. Worldwide prevalence rate of urinary tract infection was estimated to be around 150 million per year.

Objectives: To assess the existing level of knowledge regarding prevention of urinary tract infection among adolescent girls, to evaluate the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge regarding prevention of urinary tract infection among adolescent girls and to find out the association between the existing levels of knowledge with selected demographic variables.

Methods: The research design adopted was pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design. The study was conducted in St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Adoor. By using purposive sampling technique, 45 adolescent girls who have met the inclusion criteria were selected as samples. Data were collected by structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the existing level of knowledge of adolescent girls regarding prevention of urinary tract infection, followed by administration of self-instructional module, after 5 days post-test was conducted by using same knowledge questionnaire.

Results and Discussion: The present study results revealed that ‘t’ value was significant. Among the samples mean post-test scores on knowledge regarding prevention of urinary tract infection among adolescent girls (20.3) was more than that of the mean pre-test scores (12.9). This implies that the knowledge level had improved after the administration of self-instructional module.

Conclusion: The findings of the study revealed that administration of self-instructional module on prevention of urinary tract infection helped to improve the level of knowledge among adolescent girls.