Abstract: Children’s mental and emotional disorders or problems that affect not only children’s behaviour, emotions, moods or thoughts, but can also affects the entire family and adversely affects educational or developmental performance which includes intrapersonal, academic, vocational or social schemes; Thus prevention of emotional and behavioural problems enables the good community .So a study was taken to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on prevention of emotional and behavioural problems of children among ANMs. Quasi experimental study with one group pretest posttest design was used for this study. Sample size was 30 and convenient sampling technique was used in this study. The results depicts that before the intervention, 30% (n=10) had poor knowledge, 70 %(n=20) had average knowledge regarding the prevention of behavioural and emotional problems of children. After structured teaching program, 63.33 %( n=29) had average knowledge and 36.66% (n=11) had good knowledge. It was concluded that structured teaching programme was effective in increasing knowledge of ANMs regarding prevention of emotional and behavioural problems of children. (t=18.8, p<0.05 level).
Keywords: The Emotional, behavioural problems, quasi experimental research design, ANMs.
Title: Prevention Of Emotional And Behavioural Problems Among Children
Author: Mrs.V.Revathy, Mrs.S.Suvitha
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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