A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) among Students of Class Seven to Nine in a Selected School of West Jaintia Hills District Jowai Meghalaya

Lucy Suting, Namita Singha, C. E. Myrthong

Abstract: Introduction In this modern world, children and technology are inseparable. Approximately 90 of school going children now has computer access and around 54 million children connect to internet each day either at home or in school. Aims To assess the Knowledge on Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) and to evaluate the effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program among students of class seven to nine in a selected school, West Jaintia Hills District Jowai. Methodology A pre-experimental one-group pre-test-post-test research design was conducted among students of class seven to nine in St. Mary Mazzerello Girls Higher Secondary School, Jowai, during the month of February to March 2020. A total of 314 participants were selected using non-probability consecutive sampling technique. Data was collected using structured knowledge questionnaire before and after Planned Teaching Program respectively. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results Among 314 participants, the mean Pre-test knowledge score of the participants was 6.61 and the mean Post-test knowledge score was 9.99. The study reveals that there is an Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program in improving the knowledge of participants as the t-test value was -21.890 (p0.01) at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion From this study, it was concluded that Planned Teaching Program had a positive impact in increasing the knowledge on Computer Vision Syndrome among the participants. Further studies however can be conducted among different categories of population with a larger sample for a better generalization of the same.

Keywords: Computer Vision Syndrome, Effectiveness, Planned Teaching Program, Students of class seven to nine