Impact of Structured Education Program on Knowledge and Attitude Among Adolescent School Children Regarding Cyber Addiction

Abstract

Background: Cyber addiction is the among the adolescent due to the excessive use of interest and computer use. Due to growth and development, the physiological changes happen in the adolescent which have psychological and self-esteem will be changed. The aim is to assess the impact of structured education program regarding cyber addiction towards knowledge and attitude among adolescents. Methodology: A pre-experimental research study was conducted among school going adolescents at selected school Puducherry. Totally 81 sample in participated with purposive sampling techniques. The modified internet addiction scale for assessing knowledge and attitude inventory scale with 5 points likes scale used for the data collection. Results: The results revealed that majority bod sample 46(56.8%) had moderate knowledge and 63(77.8%) had moderate favorable attitude after structured teaching program towards cyber addiction. Further the level of knowledge is significant with type of school (x² = 14.844, p ,=0.022) at the level of p<0.05 by using Chi Square test. This research concluded that effective teaching program about cyber addiction as improved the level of knowledge and change in perception among school going adolescent.