An Evaluative Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding Road Safety Aspects Among Adolescent Students of Selected Senior Secondary Schools, Amritsar, Punjab

Background of the study: Road safety is the methods and measures for reducing the risk of person using the road network for being killed or seriously injured. Children are nation’s biggest asset. Every year 1, 40,590 people die due to road traffic accidents. Road safety is the necessity of each human being to protect oneself and other’s life because there is day to day increase the number of the traffic and that leads road traffic accidents. As adults, we are responsible for young children’s safety on roads. With the help of creating awareness among people that can prevent road traffic accidents Methodology: The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge of school students regarding road safety. The study adopted a pre - experimental research  design to assess the knowledge of students regarding road safety in selected senior secondary school of amritsar . The sample size was 500 school students. Convenient Sampling technique was used. The tool was two sections, section 1 consists of a self structured demographic questionnaire and section 2 consists of a self structured knowledge questionnaire. Results: The result indicates that out of 500 samples, Pre- Test the majority 5.6% had V.Good knowledge, 17.2% had Good knowledge ,53.8% of sample had Average knowledge, 23.4% had poor knowledge, Post- Test the majority 46.6% had V.Good knowledge, 45.6% had Good knowledge ,7.8% of sample had Average knowledge, 0% had poor knowledge. The study findings shows that there was non-significant association with demographic variables such as demographic variables like age, sex, class, occupation of parents, education of mother , education of father, type of family, place of residence, mode of transportation, mass media exposure at 0.05 level of significance. Recommendations: This study recommends the further research such as comparative study can be done on knowledge among urban and rural school students, studies can be done on large samples, studies can be conducted by using various demographic variables, comparative study can be done on knowledge among school students and college students, studies can be done to assess the attitude and practice of students regarding road safety.