A Study to assess the knowledge of mother regarding habit of Televisions viewing and its impact on behaviour of children in selected areas of Mehsana city

Ms. Janki Patel¹, Ms. Pinal Chaudhari²

¹Assistant Professor, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana, Gujarat, India.

²Final Year M.Sc. Nursing Students, Joitiba College of Nursing, Bhandu, Dist: Mehsana - 382710, India.

*Corresponding Author E-mail: jankiniravpatel@gmail.com, pihu44266@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

Introduction: The television is a landmark of scientific invention and amazing devices that has become an integral part of our life and it has revolutionized the world of communication. According to same studies children at the age of 6 years watch television daily for 3-4 hours on an average. The increasingly competitive economy is creating an environment where parents are forced to spend longer hours at work and fewer hours with their children . As result outside influences have greater access and influence over our children than ever before. The internet and media are bringing the outside world into your home . It influence the children every day and leads to the negative effects . television will escapes the children from real life and enter into a fantasy world and it inactivates the study image of schoolchildren and television will avoids the social interaction with other and alsi it’s a time consuming activity. Design: Descriptive research design. Participinats: 300 group of mothers were selected using non probability convenient sampling technique. Tool: self structured questionnaire. Result: study show that out of 300group , in pretest mean was 7.12 . The pre test standard deviation was 4.35. The mean difference was 11.33 and the obtained t-value was 16.86 which are significant at 0.005 levels. Hence, the stated hypothesis was accepted. Conclusion: Mother having poor knowledge about the impact of television viewing on behaviour 6-12 year children.

KEYWORDS: Assess, impact, knowledge, habit of television, behaviour.

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:

As the impact of television is more, the investigator had a curiosity to teach the children about the impact of television viewing among school children which may be propagated to their family members. Elementary school age (ages six to eleven) is considered a critical period for understanding the effects of television on aggression. At this stage, children develop the attention span and cognitive ability to follow continuous plots, to make inferences about implicit content, and to recognize motivations and consequences to characters’ actions.

In India, children between the age to 6-17 viewing television more than 35 hours a week which could several generate a greater risk of obesity, aggressive and violent behaviour amongst them.¹

Nowadays the working parents are so busy; they don’t have enough time spend with their kids. The mother has to do the cooking and look after the child simultaneously there may not be servants also. So, she switches on the TV and puts the child in front of it. Slowly it becomes a habit. after sometime the kid becomes addicted to the television and the mother blames the child for regularly watching it. Most of the ‘speech delay’ cases seen among babies are caused due to the excessive TV watching is not interactive. it is a one-way mode of activity. Displaying what has been called ‘magic window thinking’ the little kids are likely to believe that TV images are real as the people and about them.²

Television viewing among kids is at an eight-year high. on average, children age 2-5 spend 32 hours a week in front of a TV watching DVDs, DVR and videos and using game console. kid ages 6-11 spend about 28 hours a week in front of TV. The vast majority of this viewing (97%) is of live TV. The average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (28 hours /week or 2months of nonstop TV watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 year glued to the tube.³

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

“A study to assess the knowledge of mothers regarding habit of television viewing and its impact on behaviour of children in selected areas of Mehsana city.

OBJECTIVE:

· To assess the knowledge of mother regarding habit of television viewing and its impact on behaviour of children.

· To find out the association between knowledge of mother regarding habit of televisions viewing and its impact on behaviour of children in selected demographic variables.

ASSUMPTION:

· Television will have negative impact on children among mothers in selected areas.

· Children may have decreased physical activity.

METHODOLOGY:

An Quantitative research approach was adopted for this study. The research design selected was quasi experimental pretest posttest control group design. The study was conducted in Mehsana city. 300 mother under 6 -12 children are selected by non probability convenient sampling technique. Data collection done after obtaining permission from authority. Self structured questionnaire was used to collect data regarding habit of television viewing and its impact on children behaviour; prepared tool was validated by different experts.

RESULT:

This study show that out of 300 Shows that in, 37% of the mothers belonged to the age group of 26-30 years, 67% of the mothers belonged to Hindu, 40.66% of the mothers were house wife, 21.67% of the mothers belonged to nuclear family, 39.67% of mothers had higher secondary education, 40.67% of mothers had children age group 6-12, 50% of mothers had children watching television in 3-4 hours, 65.66% of mothers had knowledge regarding impact of television, 42.67% of mothers had family members first sources of knowledge regarding impact of television.

Test	Mean	Mean Percentage	SD
Knowledge	7.12	9	4.35

In that table shows mean was 7.12. The pre test standard deviation was 4.35. The mean difference was 11.33 and the obtained t-value was 16.86 which are significant at 0.005 levels. Hence, the stated hypothesis was accepted.

Findings related to association between posttest knowledge score of mothers with selected demographic variables:

These findings demonstrated that age, occupation, No. of children in age group 6-12, hours children watching television, Knowledge regarding impact of television was significant and religion, Types of family, educational status, first one sources of knowledge regarding impact of television association between knowledge score with their selected demographic variables.

CONCLUSION:

The main conclusion from this present study is that most of the mothers had poor knowledge regarding habit of televisions viewing and its impact on behaviour of children.

REFERENCE:

1. Barrie. Gunter, Harrison, Jackie; Violence on Television. 2nd edition; Published Routledge Publications; New York; pg no 209.

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Received on 04.03.2021 Modified on 21.03.2021

Int. J. of Advances in Nur. Management. 2021; 9(3):317-318.

DOI: 10.52711/2454-2652.2021.00071