“A Study To Assess The Effectiveness Of Structured Teaching Programme On Knowledge Regarding Anxiety Disorders And Suicidal Ideation And Suicidal Attempts And It’s Management Among College Students In Selected Colleges In Bhuj, Kutch.”

The improvement of knowledge regarding anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts and its managements among college students in selected colleges has a n important role in enabling the effectiveness of structured teaching programmed as an independence nursing intervention. The objective of the study is to assess the level of knowledge regarding anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts and its management among college students in selected colleges. The research design adopted was one group pre-test & post-test design. The study had been conducted in selected colleges, Bhuj - Kutch. Non-probability convenient sampling technique had been adopted to select the desired samples. The sample size was 60. As a part of intervention, a structured teaching programmed on knowledge regarding anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts and its management among college students in selected colleges for 30minutes and the data was collected by structured interview with set of questionnaires that is administered to assess the level of knowledge regarding anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts and its management among college students in selected colleges. The data were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistical method paired ‘t’ test was used to evaluating the effectiveness of structured teaching programmed on knowledge regarding anxiety disorders and risk for suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts and its management. The obtained value 9.39, which shows highly significant at the level of p<0.001. There is significant association between demographic variables such as year of experience and previous source of information with post-test level of knowledge on regarding anxiety disorders and risk for suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts and its management. The study concluded that the structured teaching programme was effectiveness in improving of knowledge regarding anxiety disorders and risk for suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts and its management.