Effectiveness Of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Management of Academic Stress Among Secondary School Students In Government Higher Secondary School Vellalore, Coimbatore.

Abstract

Academic stress adversely affects student's personal, emotional, and physical well-being as well as their learning and performance levels. Various studies highlighted the relationship between educational stress and internalizing and externalizing problems in school contexts. Adolescents who were undergoing high stress were found to be indulging in various maladaptive and risky behaviors such as increased consumption of alcohol and drugs, unprotected sexual activities, physical inactivity, poor eating, and sleeping patterns incidences of depression were also found among stressful adolescents. The study is Quantitative approach. The effectiveness of knowledge on management of academic stress was assessed in one group before and after giving a structured teaching programme. The sample is 95 school students who is studying 8^th and 9^th standard in government higher secondary school. Simple random sampling technique was used. The mean pre-test score is 31.6 and mean post-test score is 36.9.  The improvement was statistically tested by paired‘t’ test. The result found to be significant at p<0.001 because of intervention. This shows that structured teaching Programme regarding management of stress significantly increases the knowledge regarding management of academic stress among secondary school students.