A quasi experimental study to assess the effectiveness of child to child approach on knowledge regarding impact of television watching among school going children in selected schools at Trichy

Background: The youngsters of today are living in a world that is constantly evolving. An amazing technological advancement that has become a necessary part of our daily lives and has brought about a sea change in the realm of communication, the television is a significant milestone in the history of scientific innovation. Objectives: This study's goal is to evaluate the state of knowledge regarding how television viewing affects school-age children who are either in the experimental or control groups. Methods and Results: It was a quasi-experimental design that included a control group, a pretest, and a posttest. In both the control group and the experimental group, the degree of knowledge was evaluated prior to the test. Students in the eighth grade received instruction on the effects of viewing television as part of their required health education. Students will receive training in preparation for the launch of the child-to-child approach program. The change agents will be given a post-training test three days after the training has been completed in order to determine whether or not they have learnt sufficient knowledge. the convenience technique will be utilised for the beginning of the program. In the control group, the findings of this study revealed that 6.66 percent, possessed acceptable knowledge, twenty percent, possessed moderate knowledge, and seventy-three percent, possessed inadequate information. There were four individuals in the experimental group who had adequate knowledge, eleven individuals who had fairly adequate knowledge, and fifteen individuals who had inadequate information. The results of the study indicated that the average level of knowledge in the experimental group after the post-test was 19.23, which was greater than the average level of knowledge before the test, with a standard deviation of 5.47. Furthermore, the’t’ value that was obtained (t=11.284) was found to be statistically significant at a level of p