Original Research Article
Year: 2022 | Month: January | Volume: 12 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 70-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20220110
Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding the Prevention of Smartphone Addiction among Nursing Students
Savita Pardhi1, Samiksha Satpute1, Arati Kale1, Savan Vairagade1, Akshay Sadanshiv2
1Basic B.S.C Nursing, Final Year Students, 2M.S.C. Nursing Lecturer (Psychiatric), Suretech College of Nursing, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
Corresponding Author: Akshay Sadanshiv
ABSTRACT
Smartphone addiction is also known as nomophobia. (Nomophobia means a fear of being detached from mobile connectivity.) Smartphone addiction is mostly seen in students and its affects the health in both aspects physically and psychologically.
Method and Material: The study was a one group pre test and post test design (quasi experimental research design) and population for the study was GNM nursing students. The sample consists of 60 GNM nursing student. In this study, the sampling technique used was non-probability convenient sampling and the reliability of questionnaire was done by carl Pearson formula.
Results: In pre-test 23.33% of GNM nursing students were having inadequate level of knowledge score, 61.66% of GNM nursing students were having moderate level of knowledge score and only 15% of GNM nursing students were having adequate level of knowledge score. In post-test 8.33% of GNM nursing students were having inadequate level of knowledge score, 20.66% of GNM nursing students having moderate level of knowledge score and 70% of GNM nursing students were having adequate level of knowledge score. The pre-test mean score was found 14.60 (24.33%) and mean score for post-test 21.65 (36.08%).
Conclusion: The study reveals that there was deficit knowledge regarding prevention of Smartphone addiction in pre-test. The post-test knowledge was increased which reveals that structured teaching programme was effective on knowledge regarding prevention of Smartphone addiction.
Key words: Effectiveness, Structured teaching, Knowledge, Prevention, Smartphone addiction, Nursing students.