Reproductive health relates to health concerns pertaining to reproductive organs and their functions in sex and reproduction. Keeping in view educating the female adolescents during reproductive age, a study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of planned teaching on the knowledge of reproductive health among female adolescent students in selected colleges of Pune city. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge of female adolescent students regarding the reproductive health before planned teaching, to assess the knowledge of female adolescent students regarding the reproductive health after planned teaching, to compare the knowledge scores before and after planned teaching to see the effectiveness, andto associate the knowledge scores with selected demographic variables. The study adopted “systems model” as the theoretical base for the framework of the study. A self structured questionnaire tool was developed to ascertain the knowledge scores. The validity of the tool was done by 19 experts from various fields of medicine and nursing. i.e:, obstetrics and gynecology nursing, community health nursing and department of community medicine. The reliability of questionnaire was established by the method of split half method and was found to be 0.84. A pre experimental study enrolling the 200 female adolescent students of sixteen to nineteen years of age was conducted during the month of 18th August 2012 to 6th September 2012. A pre-test post-test control group design was used to evaluate effectiveness of planned teaching on knowledge of female adolescents students regarding reproductive health. The samples were selected by using convenient sampling method. The pre-test was done. On the same day planned teaching on reproductive health was given to the group and after 7 days post test was conducted to the group. In pre-test, mean knowledge score was 14.02 and in post test 21.27. There is significant increase in the post test score which clearly indicates that there has been an increase in the knowledge level of female adolescent students regarding reproductive health after the planned teaching. There is no significant association of the selected demographic variables i.e: age of the female adolescents, type of family and existing knowledge of the female adolescents. Recommendations were made based on the findings of the study. Researcher recommends that a comparative study can be done betweenurban and rural female adolescent students, A similar study can be done on larger samples for generalisation of findings, A study also can be done among the school going children of 10-16 years of age, A comparative study can be done using different educational material like information booklet, leaflets, and A comparative study can be done between professional and non- professional colleges.
