Brindhamary, G (2015) Effectiveness of child to child program through power point presentation on knowledge regarding ill effects of television watching among school children. Masters thesis, Annammal College of Nursing, Kanyakumari.
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Abstract
Television watching is an enjoyable activity for the children. It is the window of the world. From the past few decades television has crawled to Indian homes. Accessibility to television is on increase day by day and has been accepted by the society. Varieties of programmes like News, Sports, Educative, Entertainment, Cartoon etc are available round the clock. These are especially designed to attract all sectors of society, specially the children. Children who watch television too much have several bad effects, three of which are effect to their cognitive, effect to their health, and effect to their habit. First effect is to their cognitive. Children who watch television programs can be lack of concentration. The second effect is to their health. The child who likes to watch television programs can be in front of it many hours. If the children watch television programs too much, they will have a problem with their eyes, overweight, etc. The third effect is their habit. They become lazy to do something else such as study because they do not want to miss the television programs. It will influence their intelligence. Another bad effect to their habit is they will be influenced a violence in some television programs because they have not been able to think long and think what is better or bad. In brief, watching TV programs too much will give the children bad effects. Chithra J (2009) conducted a quasi- experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of child-to child approach through planned teaching program in reducing harmful effects of TV watching among selected schools in Bangalore. An evaluatory approach with pre test and post test design was used. Convenient sampling technique was used. Sample sizes of 60, 8th standard school children were selected. A structured questionnaire was conducted to select the change agent. Child to child programme was conducted through planned teaching program. There was significant difference between pre-test and post-test results about harmful effects of TV watching. The major findings of the study revealed that the knowledge level has increased from 40.2% to 75.8% in the post test. The results indicated that child-tochild programme through planned teaching program reducing the harmful effects of TV watching was effective in school children. Kennedy John (2013) conducted a study to evaluate the effectiveness of child to child programme in rural Hariyana about the concept of television watching and its bad effects. A child to child programme was carried out in eighth and ninth standard students of six rural schools. 590 students and 80 peers from four of the project schools were evaluated and compared with 199 children and 45 peers from two control schools. The project children showed higher knowledge in the topic at the end of the year. They also improved their practices at home. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM A study to assess the effectiveness of child to child program through power point presentation on knowledge regarding ill effects of television watching among school children in Kids Oxford Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Kuzhithurai at Kanyakumari District.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Child to Child Program ; Power Point Presentation ; Knowledge ; Ill Effects ; Television Watching ; School Children. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Paediatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2017 05:39 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2018 12:03 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/2135 |
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