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@article{196729,
        author = {ROOPA Y N},
        title = {’A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING ADVANCED MATERNAL AGE PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS AMONG FEMALE DEGREE STUDENTS, SELECTED IN DEGREE COLLRGE, BANGALORE},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {3921-3925},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=196729},
        abstract = {Background of The Study; Compared with olden days modern women are much serious about their carrier. And they are postponing the pregnancy as it will break their continuity in the carrier. They are planning marriage or pregnancy until achieving required position in the carrier. Science is also advanced and methods dealing with problems of advanced maternal age are now available. Even though compared with pregnancies in twenties, pregnancies in elderly women are undoubtedly risky. There is lack of knowledge regarding advanced maternal age pregnancy complications. This is an attempt to assess the knowledge of the degree students regarding advanced maternal age pregnancy complications and to prepare a structured teaching programme, which may be used as a study aid to improve the knowledge level of degree students. Methodology Research design is the overall plan for obtaining answers to the questions being studied and handling some of the difficulties encountered during the research process. The research design selected for the study is one group pre-test, post-test, pre-experimental design. The study design is depicted in the table; 1 show that on day one, a pre- test was given in the form of a structured knowledge questionnaire. After 30 minutes, the questionnaire was collected back and STP in English on advanced maternal age pregnancy complications was given on the same day. On the 7th day a post-test was given by using same questionnaire to assess the gain in knowledge regarding advanced maternal age pregnancy complications. Group Pre-test Intervention Post-test A group of 60 female degree students studying in T. john college of nursing. Results Findings shows that 15.0% of the subjects had moderate level of knowledge and 85.0% of the subjects had inadequate knowledge regarding advanced maternal age pregnancy complications. Findings show that highest percentage (100.0%) of the sample had a adequate level of knowledge in the post test. Paired ‘t’ test was used to compare the pre-test and post-test knowledge scores of degree students regarding advanced maternal age pregnancy complications. The total mean percentage of the pre-test and post-test knowledge score was 46.49% and 85.06% respectively and the effectiveness of the STP showed an increase in the mean percentage by 38.57%.
Conclusion On the basis of the findings of the study 0% of degree students had an adequate, 15.0% of the subjects had moderate level of knowledge and 85.0% of the subjects had inadequate level of pre-test knowledge regarding advanced maternal age pregnancy complications and also the study revealed that STP on advanced maternal age pregnancy complications was effective by getting post-tests scores as 100%.},
        keywords = {Advanced maternal age, Human chorionic gonadotropin, Triiodothyronine Thyroxine, Luteinizing hormone, Gestational diabetes mellitus.},
        month = {April},
        }