EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON
CONSEQUENCES OF INTERNET ADDICTION AND ITS PREVENTION
AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Ms. Neetu Gilbert,
Page No. 105-109

The present study is aimed at determining the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on
consequences of internet addiction and its prevention among adolescents. Objectives were to, assess
the severity of internet addiction among adolescents, assess the existing knowledge among
adolescents regarding consequences of internet addiction and its prevention, assess the
effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding consequences of internet
addiction and its prevention among adolescents, find the association between knowledge score
among adolescents and socio demographic variables and find the association between severity of
internet addiction among adolescents and selected socio demographic variables. The research
design adopted was pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design , the sampling technique
was stratified random sampling for selecting schools and purposive sampling technique for
selecting the sample. The tools used for the present study include tool for collecting socio
demographic profile, Internet Addiction Test for assessing the severity of internet addiction and also
for the selection of sample and a structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge regarding
consequences of internet addiction and its prevention. The pre-test and the structured teaching
programme was administered to all the participants and post-test was done for the selected sample
on the same day. The calculated‘t’ value for teaching programme was 32.9 2 which was statistically
significant at 0.05 level which shows that teaching programme was effective in improving
knowledge. The study also identified that there was association between pre-test knowledge score
among adolescents with gender, educational status of subject’s father and there was also
association between severity of internet addiction among adolescents with selected socio
demographic variables like duration of using internet and place of using internet.
Keywords : adolescents; consequences; internet addiction disorder; structured teaching programme