A PRE-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING NOMOPHOBIA AND ITS PREVENTION AMONG THE STUDENTS AT SELECTED GOVT. DEGREE COLLEGE OF DISTT. SHIMLA H.P.

Abstract

Background- Nomophobia or no mobile phone phobia is used to describe a psychological condition when people have fear of being detached from mobile phone. The term Nomophobia is constructed on denitions described in the DSM-IV; it has been labelled as a “phobia” for a specic / particular thing. various psychological factors are involved when a person overuse the mobile phones. To show the effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding nomophobia and its pre Aim - vention among the degree college students in selected government degree college at distt. Shimla, H.P. Quantitative Material and Method- approach was used, and Pre - experimental research design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted among the 90 college students selected by convenient sampling technique at selected degree college in distt. Shimla, H.P. Data were collected by using 30 structured knowledge questionnaires regarding knowledge and prevention of nomophobia. The data was presented in the form of tabulation and analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The nding revealed that out of 90 samples, maximum study sample 54.4% were in age group of 20 year, followed by 33.3 % in age group of 19 year and only 12.2% of 18 year. with regard of gender 65.6% were female and 34.4% were male. in term of stream 35.6% were commerce students, while highest 64.4% from arts stream. Result- The study nding revealed that before administration of STP most of the students 85.6% of the college students had poor knowledge, 14.4% of the students had average knowledge, 0% of the students had good knowledge. thus, it states that majority 85.6% of degree college students had poor knowledge regarding nomophobia and its prevention.while there was tremendous increase in knowledge in post-test 1.1% of students had poor knowledge, 37.8% college students had average knowledge and 61.1% of college students had good knowledge regarding nomophobia and its prevention shown by difference in Pretest score 11.69 +-2.155 and post-test knowledge score 22.43 +-3.243 with 35.82% of mean difference On the basis of result nding the study concluded t Conclusion- hat structured teaching programme is an effective way to show tremendous increase in knowledge regarding Nomophobia and its prevention.