• NR Prajapati
• Ms. Silviya Das

This study was conducted to assess effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding hazardous effects of smart phone addiction on children. The target population for the study was parents of school going children in selected urban areas of vadodara and in this study parents of school going children in that children age is 6 to 12 years has been preferred.The structured teaching programme was prepared and conducted focusing on introduction, definition smartphone, smartphone addiction definition, causes of smartphone addiction, sign and symptoms, hazardous effects of smartphone addiction on children, prevention of smart phone addiction.A quantitative research approach with pre-experimental research design was adopted for the study. A total 50 sample were selected by nonprobability convenient sampling technique.Data was collected using structured knowledge questionnaire. The data were collected and analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics to find out the significant difference between the pre-test and post-test knowledge. Mean pre-test knowledge score was 8.32±3.34 and mean post-test knowledge score was 20.16±3.50 with mean difference of 11.84 and (“t”value-21.16, df-49) was found statistically highly significant at p<0.05. Findings revealed that structured teaching programme was effective in improving knowledge of parents of school going children regarding hazardous effects of smart phone addiction on children

Knowledge , Hazardous effects, Prevention, Smart phone, Addiction ,Parent, school going children, Structured teaching programme

"A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding hazardous effects of smart phone addiction on children among the parents of school going children in selected urban areas of vadodara", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 9, page no.e578-e582, September-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2509464.pdf

"A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding hazardous effects of smart phone addiction on children among the parents of school going children in selected urban areas of vadodara", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 9, page no. ppe578-e582, September-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2509464.pdf