Current Issue : July-September Volume : 2019 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 2 Articles
Computer and internet has become a very popular means of communication in present days. Internet usage has the potential to develop and change the existing social structure of the nation. The essentiality of internet in certain course of study has increased the use of computer among students and makes them more susceptible to pathological use of internet. The present study was conducted to find association of internet addiction and psychosomatic symptoms among college students. A descriptive co-relational survey was conducted by using purposive sampling method and recruited 116 college students studying Bachelor of Computer Application. Internet Addiction Test (IAT) was used to assess level of internet addiction and depression, anxiety, stress scale (DASS-42) and somatic symptoms checklist was used to assess psychophysiological symptoms among students. Among 116 students, A large majority of subjects (51.72%) were between 17-19 year of age and 76 subjects (65.52%) were males and 40 (34.48%) were females participants. 5.17 % students experienced severe level of internet addiction. When the level of internet addiction was compared with socio-demographic variables of students. It shows that only medium of internet use (x2 = 8.10)* was significantly associated with internet addiction at 0.05 level of significance. The related findings enable us to be aware of the effects of internet usage, internet addiction tendency and associated psycho physiological symptoms. Students high in internet addiction are more vulnerable depression, anxiety, stresses and somatic complaints and psychologist and psychiatrist must be aware to suggest the appropriate therapeutic interventions timely....
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding substance abuse among high school children in a selected high school at Kollam district. The objectives of the study was to assess the level of knowledge regarding substance abuse among high school children, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding substance abuse among high school children and to find out the association between pretest knowledge scores regarding substance abuse among high school children with selected demographic variables. A quantitative pre experimental one group pretest posttest design was used. Using non probability purposive sampling 50 samples were selected. The mean posttest knowledge score 23.42 with standard deviation 4.50 was significantly higher than the mean pretest knowledge score 15.94 with standard deviation 3.71.The result of the study shows that there was improvement in the knowledge of the high school children after conducting the structured teaching programme and thus structured teaching programme was statistically significant at 0.001 level (t=10.5, p<0.001). There was no significant association between mean pretest knowledge scores with selected demographic variables. Hence the study suggested that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge of the high school children regarding substance abuse....
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