Effectiveness of structured teaching Programme on knowledge and skills of teachers regarding identification of visual problems among school children in selected schools, Manipur

A vision disorder is an impairment of the sense of vision. Vision disorder is not the same as an eye disease. Although many vision disorders do have their immediate cause in the eye, there are many other causes that may occur at other locations in the optic pathway. Aim of the study: To determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge and skills of teachers regarding identification of visual problems among school children and to correlate the knowledge and skills of teachers regarding identification of visual problems among school children. Design: Pre-experimental one group Pre-test post-test design was utilized in this study. Study Sample: The Non-probability, convenience sampling technique among 100 teachers. Setting: The study will be in selected at highschool,Manipur. Tool of data collection: A structured knowledge questionnaire. Results: It is inferred that there is a significant increase in the level of skills of teachers on identification of visual problems after the structured teaching programme at the level of P < 0.05. This reveals that out of 100 samples, majority of them 54 (54%) had Moderate skill, 39 (39%) had Adequate skill and only 7 (7%) had Inadequate skill.