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Effectiveness of Peer Mediated Teaching on Knowledge Regarding Healthy Habits and Its Importance among 10-12 Years of School Childrens

Author(s) MS. MONIKABEN MUKESHBHAI GAMIT, PROF. ASHISH JAIN, MS. CHARMEE MISTRY
Country India
Abstract Major causes of morbidity among Indian school children are unhealthy habits, lack of personal hygiene and poor sanitation. Lack of knowledge and negative attitudes are leading to poor practices regarding healthy habits. The peer mediated teaching based learning is most effective to improve the knowledge regarding healthy habits among school children. The study was aimed to find out the effectiveness of peer mediated teaching on knowledge regarding healthy habits and its importance among 10-12 years of school children’s at in a selected school of rural area at. Tapi district, Gujarat. This Pre experimental study was conducted in 2023 among Non- probability convenience sampling technique selected 60 sample from 10-12 years of school children’s at in a selected school of rural area at. Tapi district, Gujarat. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used for data collection. Data analysis was done through descriptive and inferential statistics.The present study is evaluating the knowledge of 10-12 years of school children regarding healthy habits and its importance. The mean score of pre-test knowledge is 12.37% and post-test mean score is 18.95%. It shows significant difference in pre-test and post-test. The difference in pre-test mean score and post-test mean score is 6.58%. The great difference in pre-test and post-test mean score of knowledge shows that the peer mediated teaching given to the 10-12 years of school children’s was very effective. There is no significant association between knowledge score with demographic variables. The pretestscore was less in knowledge regarding healthy habits and its importance among 10-12 years of school children’s after peer mediated teaching regarding healthy habits and its importance the findings of the study revealed that there is an improvement in the post test knowledge scores.
Keywords Peer mediated teaching, Healthy habits and its importance, School children’s
Field Medical / Pharmacy
Published In Volume 6, Issue 4, July-August 2024
Published On 2024-08-06
Cite This Effectiveness of Peer Mediated Teaching on Knowledge Regarding Healthy Habits and Its Importance among 10-12 Years of School Childrens - MS. MONIKABEN MUKESHBHAI GAMIT, PROF. ASHISH JAIN, MS. CHARMEE MISTRY - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 4, July-August 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.25166
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.25166
Short DOI https://doi.org/gt65j7

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