Abstract :
Background: Any emotional distress to a person may lead him into various types of mental disorders, ranging from neurosis to psychosis. It is very important to have knowledge to identify some peculiar psychiatric disorders like Ganser syndrome. Objectives: (1) To assess the pretest and post knowledge regarding Ganser syndrome. (2) To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding Ganser syndrome and to find out association between pre-test knowledge scores with their selected socio demographic variables. Methodology: An evaluative study was conducted among 40 law students of selected Law college of Hubballi. The research design used for the study was Pre-experimental; one group pre-test, post-test design. Results: In the pre-test 35(87.5%) had average knowledge, 03(7.5%) had good knowledge and 02(05%) had poor knowledge. In post-test, 39(97.5%) had good knowledge, 1(2.5%) had average knowledge and none of them had poor knowledge regarding Ganser syndrome. There was a significant gain in knowledge of law students who were exposed structured teaching program i.e. 28.22%. The paired âtâ test value (tcal = 13.45) at p
Keyword :
Ganser syndrome, knowledge, laws students, structured teaching programme.