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“A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge of Parents Regarding Impact of Mobile Phone Usage Among School Age Children (6-12 years) in OPD at Saraswathi Hospital, Hapur”
ABSTRACT
Background: Human being is a social animal. To socialize with others, we need to share over views, beliefs, feelings etc. This sharing is facilitated by communication. Communication is the transfer of information from person to person. Mobile phone is a small, portable communication device that enables people to make phone calls whenever where they are. Signal transmission is the very basic concept for mobile phone. The convenience of mobile phone is allowing people to communicate with one another without the limitation of regions and time. Mobile phone is a device providing two-way communication. The technology influencing on mobile phone started back in the mid twentieth century.
Material and Methods : The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge of parents regarding impact of mobile phone usage among school age children (6-12 years) in OPD Saraswathi Hospital, Hapur.To find out the association between knowledge & selected demographic variables. A Quantitative approach was used and the research design adopted for the present study was descriptive survey research. The target population of the study was knowledge of parents regarding impact of mobile phone usage among school age children (6-12 years). Sample size was 60 data analysis was done by the basis of Objective and Hypothesis of study.The obtained data was analyzed based on objectives and hypothesis by using descriptive and inferential statistics and hypothesis were tested at 0.05 level of significance.
Result:The result of the study says that knowledge of parents regarding impact of mobile phone usage among school age children (6-12 years) that 13(21.3%) had poor knowledge, 45(73.8%) had a good knowledge and 2(3.3%) had a poor knowledge.There was no significant association between Demographic Variables & Knowledge of Parents regarding impact of mobile phone usage (r= 0.04, p= 0.08).
Conclusion : This study concluded that majority of the Parents have Average knowledge regarding impact of mobile phone usage among school children (6-12 years). The findings highlight that the Researchers can play a significant role to educate the Parents regarding impact of mobile phone usage.
Keywords:
Key words : Mobile phone usage, knowledge, School age Children (6-12years)
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"“A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge of Parents Regarding Impact of Mobile Phone Usage Among School Age Children (6-12 years) in OPD at Saraswathi Hospital, Hapur”", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.7, Issue 10, page no.223-230, October-2022, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2210151.pdf
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