A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding impact of Social Media among school children (10-12 years) in selected school, Bangalore

The study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and attitude regarding impact of social media among school children (10-12 years) in selected school, at Bangalore. A pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted for the present study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 60 samples. The pretest was conducted among 60 children by administering the structured knowledge questionnaires followed by structured teaching on social media impact. Post test was conducted on the 7th day of structured teaching programme by using the same tool. The data was gathered and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistical method. The findings revealed that in pre-test, the level of knowledge which comprises 36(60.00%) are having Inadequate knowledge, 24(40.00%) are having Moderate level of knowledge and 0(0.00%) are having Adequate knowledge. During post-test, the level of knowledge was 37(61.67%) are having adequate knowledge, 23(38.33%) are having moderate knowledge and 0 (0.00%) are having inadequate knowledge. The paired ‘t’ test value shows that the Pre-test, mean is 12.38, SD is 6.3 and mean% is 41.27% after structured teaching programme in the post-test the mean is 23.15, SD is 4.5 and mean% is 77.17%. It is evident that there is an enhancement of mean is 10.77, SD is 6.3 and the mean percentage is 77.17%. Paired t value 2.39 is significant at P<0.01 level indicating that structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge regarding social media impact. Hence H1 was retained. There was a significant association found between post-test level of knowledge regarding impact of social media addiction among school children and selected demographic variables like age (x2 = 6.2), religion (x2 = 9.8), monthly income (x2 = 11.5), Time of spending on social sites daily (x2 = 10.7) with the level of knowledge score at the level of p<0.05. Hence H2 was accepted. Social media have harmful impact on school children. Lack of knowledge regarding impact of social media can increase the incidence of social media addiction and its ill effects. There by adequate knowledge is essential among school children to avoid social media addiction and their harmful effects on health.