Asian Pacific Journal of Nursing

ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF EXCESSIVE USE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA AMONG ADOLESCENCE

Ms. Sunu K Rajan

sunurajan89@gmail.com

Effectiveness, Structured teaching programme, Consequences, Electronic Media, Adolescence

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding the consequences of excessive use of electronic media among adolescents in a selected school at Kollam district. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding the consequences of excessive use of electronic media among adolescence, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding the consequences of excessive use of electronic media among adolescence, to find out the association between pretest knowledge scores with the socio demographic variables. The study was undertaken with 30 samples. Convenience sampling was used. The research design was one group pre-test post-test design. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used for collecting data. Pretest was administered followed by structured teaching programme and post test was done. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study findings shows that in the pretest 50% of adolescence are having poor level of knowledge, 40% of adolescence having average level of knowledge and 6.6% are having good level of knowledge regarding consequences of excessive use of electronic media. After the structured teaching programme, in the posttest 40% of adolescence has very good level of knowledge, 60% having good level of knowledge and none of them have poor level knowledge regarding consequences of excessive use of electronic media. The calculated t value (14.9) is higher than tabulated t value (t29=2.05) at 0.05 level of significance. So the hypothesis (H1) was accepted. Hence it can be concluded that there is significant difference in the knowledge level of adolescence regarding the consequences of excessive use of electronic media. It is inferred that structured teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge score of adolescence regarding the consequences of excessive use of electronic media. It was concluded that there was a significant improvement in posttest score when compare to the pretest score, so the structured teaching was effective. There was no significant association between pretest knowledge scores and the selected socio demographic variables