LEVEL OF AGGRESSION AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNED TEACHING PROGRAM ON AGGRESSION MANAGEMENT IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE AMONG ADOLESCENTS.

A study to assess the level of Aggression and the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Aggression Management in terms of Knowledge among adolescents at selected school of Delhi. The research approach adopted was Experimental and the design adopted was Pre experimental One group Pre – Test and Post – Test design. The independent variable of the study was Level of Aggression and Planned Teaching Program on Aggression Management among Adolescents and dependant variable was Knowledge of the Adolescents on Aggression Management. 40 Adolescents with the age group of 13-19 years studying in 9 th standard in Shashi Public Secondary School, Delhi were selected using Purposive Sampling technique. The major findings of the study were: Majority of adolescents i.e. 65%had mild aggression, 17.5% had moderate aggression, 12.5 % had no aggression and 5% had severe aggression, The mean post – test Knowledge score of the adolescents were significantly higher than the mean pre – test knowledge score, Planned Teaching Program was found to be effective strategy in enhancing the knowledge scores of adolescents. There

A study to assess the level of Aggression and the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Aggression Management in terms of Knowledge among adolescents at selected school of Delhi. The research approach adopted was Experimental and the design adopted was Pre experimental One group Pre -Test and Post -Test design. The independent variable of the study was Level of Aggression and Planned Teaching Program on Aggression Management among Adolescents and dependant variable was Knowledge of the Adolescents on Aggression Management. 40 Adolescents with the age group of 13-19 years studying in 9 th standard in Shashi Public Secondary School, Delhi were selected using Purposive Sampling technique. The major findings of the study were: Majority of adolescents i.e. 65%had mild aggression, 17.5% had moderate aggression, 12.5 % had no aggression and 5% had severe aggression, The mean posttest Knowledge score of the adolescents were significantly higher than the mean pretest knowledge score, Planned Teaching Program was found to be effective strategy in enhancing the knowledge scores of adolescents. There was no significant association between the mean Aggression Scores and Mean Post -Test Knowledge Scores with the selected demographic variables i.e. Age, Gender, Order of Birth, Types of Family, Education of Father, Education of Mother Family income per month in rupees, No. of Siblings, Occupation of Father, and Occupation of mother.

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Aggression is a behavior intended to threaten or injure the victim's security or self-esteem. It means "to go against, "to assault" or "to attack". It is a response that aims at inflicting pain or injury on objects or persons. Weather the damage is caused by words, fists, or weapons, the behavior is virtually always designed to punish. It is frequently accompanied by bitterness, meanness and ridicule. An aggressive person is always vengeful. Expression of anger may take many forms including violence, self-harm and more commonly, physical and verbal aggression. Anger expression may also present differently according to the developmental age of the child. In early childhood, aggressive behavior in mild to moderate forms is fairly common. As children develop, however they learn skills to control their aggression before it becomes problematic.

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Aggressive behavior becomes concerning and more clinically significant when it occurs frequently. It is higher, intense and violent and causes harm to others. Anger and its expression represent a major public health problem for school-age children and adolescents. Prevalence reports show that anger related problem such as oppositional deviant behavior, verbal and physical aggression, and are the more common reasons children are referred for mental health services.
India is also facing problems due to increased violence in schools. In 2011, 18% of students ages 12-18 reported that gangs were present in their schools during school year. In 2012, there were about 749,200 nonfatal violent victimizations at school among students 12 to 18 years of age. Approximately 9% of teachers reported that they have been threatened with injury by a student from their school; 5% of school teachers reported that they had been physically attacked by a student from their school. In 2013 nationally representative sample of youth in grades 9-12. 8.1% reported being in a physical fight on school property in the 12 months before the survey. 5.2% reported carrying a weapon (gun, knife or club) on school property on one or more days in the 30 days before the survey. 6.9% reported being threatened or injured with a weapon on school property one or more times in the 12 months before the survey. Results:-Section-1:-Findings related to Demographic characteristics of adolescents. Majority of adolescents (70%) were in 13-15 years, Birth order wise majority of them (37.5%) were youngest, As per type of family (50%) adolescents were living in nuclear family, (50%) were living in joint family and none of them were from broken family, As per education of father, majority of them (35 %) were educated up to secondary, As per education of mother most of them (27.5%) were graduates, In terms of family income majority of them (42.5%) had income more than Rs 20,001per month, Most of the adolescents (60%) had two siblings, As per occupation of father majority (57.5%) had business, Majority of mothers (96%) were housewife.

Statement of The Problem:-
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Severe aggression 11-15 2 5 Above Table showed that majority of the adolescents i.e. 26 (65%) had mild aggression, 7 (17.5%) had moderate aggression, 5 (12.5%) had no aggression and 2 (5%) had severe aggression.   Table, it is evident that the mean posttest knowledge score (17.33) of the adolescents was significantly higher than the mean pretest knowledge scores (11.03) with the mean difference (6.30). The obtained mean difference is found to be statistically significant as evident from "t" value (13.22) df (39) which is greater than the Nursing Implications:-Nursing syllabus should provide a specific detail about the topic on aggression management. Nursing students must learn about detection, prevention and home management of aggression. Post graduate courses should prepare psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner. They can serve as resource persons for other nurses, nursing students, clients and their families for determining appropriate interventions. Nurses should have better knowledge regarding dealing with aggressive clients. Nurses should teach aggression management techniques to the clients so that they can manage aggression more constructively in hospitals as well as home. Involve family members also for regular teachings sessions or group discussion on management of aggressive children in Psychiatric OPD, Pediatric OPD and child guidance clinics. Nurse administrator should organize conferences to update the knowledge of their nurses regarding aggression management techniques so that they can manage their aggressive clients in a better way as well as their own aggression. Research studies conducted by Indian nurses in this area are few. So more nursing research should be conducted to prepare various educational materials for health care workers and evaluate health care workers. Nursing research should be directed to further explore and update knowledge and practice of nurses regarding care of aggressive clients and various aggressive management techniques.