A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PLAN ON TEXT NECK SYNDROME AMONG ADOLESCENTS OF SREE NARAYANA GURUKULAM HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, CHEMPAZHANTHY, SREEKARYAM, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM.

Mrs. Renu. S

Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PLAN ON TEXT NECK SYNDROME AMONG ADOLESCENTS OF SREE NARAYANA GURUKULAM HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL, CHEMPAZHANTHY, SREEKARYAM, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM.

Mrs. Renu. S

Abstract :

The term Text neck or Turtleneck posture can be described as a repeated stress injury and pain sustained from excessive texting on handheld devices for a long periods of time .Text neck may cause harmful symptoms such as neck pain ,upper back pain and chronic headache and increase the curvature. The study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on Text Neck Syndrome among adolescents in Sree Narayana Gurukulam Higher Secondary School , Chempazhanthy, Sreekaryam, Thiruvananthapuram. The researcher used quantative research approach using one group pre test post test method.The present study was carried out on 60 samples. The variables used in this study were age, sex, monthly income, place of residence and type of family. The result shows, statistical relation between sex, type of family and monthly income .The mean pretest score 9.08+_2.38and mean post test score17+_2.83