A STUDY ON HIV AND AIDS PREVENTION AWARENESS PROGRAM FOR IST YEAR BSC NURSING STUDENTS AT SRI RAMANAMAHARSHI COLLEGE OF NURSING SIRA ROAD TUMAKUR

Objectives: 1. To assess the pre-test level of knowledge regarding the prevention of HIV and AIDS among 1st year B.Sc. Nursing students in Sri Ramana Maharshi college of Nursing at Tumakuru. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured teaching programme by comparing pre-test and post-test knowledge scores on prevention of HIV and AIDS among the study participants. Methodology: The research design of the study was pre –experimental one group pre-test and post test design .The sample consists of 60 1st Bsc nursing students Sri Ramana Maharshi college of Nursing Tumakuru, convenient sampling technique was used for the present study, the post test was conducted after 7 days of intervention by using same questionnaire. the data obtained was analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics Results: The recent study evaluates and found that demographic variables majority of the subjects 22 (36.7%) were in the age group of 22 year and above, 15 (33.3%) were in the age group of 20-21 years, 10 (16.7%) were in the age group of 21-22 years and 08 (13.3%) were in age group of 19-20 years. Table 2 represents that majority of the subjects 40 (66.7%) were belonged to joint family, 20 (33.3%) were belonged to nuclear family. Conclusion: The data were analysed by applying descriptive and inferential statistics, the result of the study indicate that focus of this study was to explore level of knowledge regarding prevention of HIV and Aids among 1st B.Sc. Nursing students, analysis data shows highly significance difference found between pre test and post test knowledge score at the level of 0.05 the hypothesis is proved and accepted.