A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding smart phone addiction (nomophobia) and its prevention among adolescent in a selected Shri B.N. High school at Vadnagar
Anjaliben Pravinbhai Vankar, Surendar Kumar J and Nima Patel
Technology, a word which has become the talk of the nation, is dominating people’s life today. Over last 15 years there has been tremendous growth in use of mobile phone because of usefulness in communication and interaction and the sphere of work and private life, beside communication mobile phone, have been used for other purpose like playing game and listening song and using internet for social network its helps to reduce the loneliness and making new friends and resultantly mobile phone have parcel part of life mobile phone users.
Background: Nomo phobia can have adverse effects on a person's health as well as his/her social life. And the fact that it is a phobia makes it bad anyway. With the massive worldwide growth in mobile connections, it has made us dependent on the usage of mobile phones to stay in contact with our near and dear ones 24x7.
Objective: To assess the pre-test level of knowledge regarding Smart Phone Addiction (Nomo phobia) and its prevention among adolescent.
To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding Smart Phone Addiction (Nomo phobia) and its prevention among adolescent.
To find out the association between post-test knowledge score with their selected demographic variables.
Methods: Pre-experimental research design was used to determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding Smart Phone Addiction (Nomo phobia) and its prevention among adolescent. The tool used in this study consisted of two sections. Section A was demographic variables and Section B was modified question to assess the knowledge regarding smartphone addiction. Convenience sampling technique was used select sample and data was collected from 60 adolescence students in selected school of Vadnagar city.
Results: Knowledge score shows that 45 (75%) adolescent score between 0-10 which shows inadequate knowledge toward smartphone addiction and its prevention. 15(25%) adolescents score between 11-20 which shows adequate knowledge toward Smartphone addiction and its prevention, 0(0%) adolescents of score between 21-30 which shows no one having adequate knowledge toward Smartphone addiction and its prevention. In data analysis the mean of pre-test score was 8.41 and mean of post-test score was 22.56. The mean difference was14.15. The standard deviation of pre-test knowledge score was 5.16 and post- test knowledge score was 3.95. The Calculated ‘t’ value is 21.54, the DF value was 59 and p value was 1.671 and the NS level of significant.
Conclusion: This study finding concluded that structured teaching programme on smart phone addiction (nomophobia) and its prevention was effective in improving the knowledge among adolescent.
Anjaliben Pravinbhai Vankar, Surendar Kumar J, Nima Patel. A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding smart phone addiction (nomophobia) and its prevention among adolescent in a selected Shri B.N. High school at Vadnagar. Int J Adv Psychiatric Nurs 2024;6(1):118-119. DOI: 10.33545/26641348.2024.v6.i1b.157