INTRODUCTION:

Communication is essential in day to day life. In ancient period they had used postal letter, trunk call, fax etc. Evolution of scientific technology has brought enormous changes in the communication pattern. Sharing of information became very easy with help of computer and mobile phone. Mobile phone have revolutionized modern communication and empowered consumers. However, like many consumer technology, applications of mobile phones, internet, and computer have their own distinctive advantages and disadvantages.⁽¹⁾

Cell phones are a vast improvement over the telecommunications technology of the past, and are daily becoming a fixture of modern life cell phones have become a necessity for many people throughout the world.⁽²⁾

Mobile phone addiction/abuse/misuse is one of the forms of compulsive use of “a mobile phone” by adolescents across the world. A new kind of health disorder in this category among adolescents, “smartphone's addiction/abuse/misuse” is now challenging health policy makers globally to think on this rapidly emerging issue merging issue.⁽³⁾

Over usage of mobile phones may cause psychological illness such as dry eyes, computer vision syndrome, weakness of thumb and wrist, neck pain and rigidity, increased frequency of De Quervain's tenosynovitis, tactile hallucinations, nomophobia, insecurity, delusions, auditory sleep disturbances, insomnia, hallucinations, lower self-confidence, and mobile phone addiction disorders. In animals, chronic exposure to Wi-Fi radiation caused behavioral alterations, liver enzyme impairment, pyknotic nucleus, and apoptosis in brain cortex. Kesari et al. concluded that the mobile phone radiation may increase the reactive oxygen species, which plays an important role in the development of metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases.⁽⁴⁾

Today, there is about 3.3 billion users. The use of mobile phones among young children and adolescents is also increasing dramatically. It is an intended need which is necessary to increase the awareness of the negative effects of excessive phone use on their sleep wake patterns, with serious health risks, as well as attention and cognitive problems.⁽⁵⁾

OBJECTIVES:

1. To assess the knowledge regarding health hazards of mobile phone among student nurses.

2. To evaluate the effectiveness of PTP on knowledge regarding health hazards of mobile phone among student nurses.

3. To find out the association between the pretest knowledge score regarding health hazards of mobile phone with their socio demographic variables.

Hypothesis:

H_1:The mean post-test knowledge scores of student nurses regarding health hazards of mobile phone who have exposed to planned teaching program (PTP) will be significantly higher than the mean pre-test knowledge scores at 0.05 level of significance.

H_2:There will be a correlation between pre-test knowledge score of student nurses regarding health hazards of mobile phone at 0.05 level of significance.

H_3:There will be an association between pre-test knowledge scores of student nurses regarding health hazards of mobile phone with their socio demographic Plannedvariables at 0.05 level of significance.

METHODOLOGIES:

A pre experimental with one group pre test and post test design and quantative approach was selected to carry out the study. The study population comprised of all study nurses studying at Gangasheel school of Nursing Bareilly. The sample size for study was 50 student nurses.

Probability, stratified random sampling technique was used for selecting sample for the study. The tools used for the study were: (i) structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge. Section I was comprised of socio demographic variables, section II was structure knowledge questionnaire regarding health hazards of mobile phone. (ii) Planned teaching program regarding health hazards of mobile phone.

RESULT:

Table: 1 Frequency and percentage distribution of staff nurses according to socio-demographic variables. n = 50

SI. No	Demographic Variables	Frequency (f)	Percentage (%)

1	Age (in yrs)
	a) 18-20	28	56%
	b) 20 above	22	44%
2	Gender
	a) Male	11	22%
	b) Female	39	78%
3	Residence
	a) Rural	15	30%
	b) Urban	35	70%
4	Educational status- Father
	a) Illiterate	4	8%
	b) Primary education	5	10%
	c) Secondary education	11	22%
	d) Graduate and above	30	60%
5	Educational status- Mother
	a) Illiterate	7	14%
	b) Primary education	23	46%
	c) Secondary education	14	28%
	d) Graduate and above	6	12%
6	Occupation- Father
	a) Self employed	13	26%
	b) Government employed	27	54%
	c) Private employed	6	12%
	d) Others	4	8%
7	Occupation- Mother
	a) Housewife	45	90%
	b) Self employed	0	0%
	c) Government employed	5	10%
	d) Private employed	0	0%
8	Family income (monthly)
	a) 20000-25000	13	26%
	b) 25000-30000	7	14%
	c) 30000 above	30	60%
9	Type of mobile phone
	a) Basic phone	4	8%
	b) Feature phone	1	2%
	c) Smartphone	45	90%
10	Cost of mobile phone
	a) 5000-10000	23	46%
	b) 10000-15000	24	48%
	c) 15000-20000	3	6%

Fig: 1 Pie graph shows Percentage distribution of student nurses according to their age

Fig 2: Doughnut graph showing distribution of student nurses according to their gender

The overall pre test knowledge mean score percentage is 39.90% whereas in post test knowledge mean score percentage is 60.60%. There was a significant gain in knowledge score is 20.70% who were exposed to the planned teaching program revealing the effectiveness of planned teaching program (PTP) on health hazards of mobile phone.

The calculated paired ‘t’ value (t_cal=10.73) is greater than the tabulated value (t_tab=2.06) in knowledge scores. Therefore these result proved the effectiveness of planned teaching program in terms of gain in knowledge scores.

The chi square value for knowledge scores with selected socio-demographic variables revealed that there was statistical association.

Fig 3: Bar graph showing percentage distribution of student nurses according to the level of pre test and post test knowledge score.

Fig 4: The column graph representing mean percentage gain in knowledge score of student according to their level of knowledge.

DISCUSSION:

The discussion is based on the data procured from the study “a study to evaluate the effectiveness of planned teaching program on knowledge regarding health hazards of mobile phone among student nurses”.

Majority of the student nurses 28(56%) belonged to the age group of 18-20 years. Majority of the student nurses 39(78%) were females. This indicates that the majority of nursing students were females, thus from the beginning the female population has upper hand in the nursing profession. Most of the student nurses 35(70%) were from urban areas. Most of the student’s fathers 30(60%) were graduate. Most of the students nurse’s mother 23(46%) have received primary education. Most of the students father’s 27(54%) were government employee and 45(90%) of student’s mothers were housewife. Majority of the student’s 30(60%) have family income more than ₨30000. Majority of student nurses 45(90%) have smartphone and majority of them 24 (48%) have mobile phone under ₨10000-20000.

The paired 't’ value (t_cal= 10.73) was greater than the tabulated value (t_tab= 2.01). Hence it indicates that the mean gain in knowledge scores of student nurses who were exposed to planned teaching program was higher than pretest.

The calculated value of paired ‘t’ test value (t_cal=10.73) was greater than the tabulated value (t_tab=2.01). This indicates that the gain in knowledge scores was statistically significant at p< 0.05 level. Therefore the planned teaching program on health hazards of mobile phone among student nurses in terms of gain in knowledge scores.

CONCLUSSION:

It was concluded that the planned teaching program was effective in improving the knowledge of student nurses regarding health hazards of mobile phone.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Keeping in view regarding findings of the present study, the following recommendations were made:

1. A similar study can be conducted on a larger and wider sample for a longer period of time would be more pertinent in making broad generalizations.

2. A descriptive study can be conducted to assess knowledge and attitude regarding health hazards of mobile phone among student nurses.

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Received on 12.08.2019 Modified on 19.10.2019

Int. J. Nur. Edu. and Research. 2020; 8(1): 19-22.

DOI: 10.5958/2454-2660.2020.00004.6