Volume : 7, Issue : 12, 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 :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;&#10;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">The&nbsp; term&nbsp; Text neck or Turtleneck posture can be&nbsp; described&nbsp; as&nbsp; a repeated stress&nbsp; injury&nbsp; and pain sustained from excessive&nbsp; texting on&nbsp; handheld devices&nbsp; for&nbsp; a long periods of time&nbsp; .Text neck&nbsp; may&nbsp; cause&nbsp; harmful&nbsp; symptoms&nbsp; such as neck pain&nbsp; ,upper back pain and&nbsp; chronic headache and increase the&nbsp; curvature. The&nbsp; study&nbsp; was&nbsp;&nbsp; undertaken &nbsp;&nbsp;to assess the effectiveness&nbsp; of structured&nbsp; teaching&nbsp; programme&nbsp; on Text Neck Syndrome&nbsp; among&nbsp; adolescents&nbsp; in Sree Narayana Gurukulam Higher Secondary School , Chempazhanthy, Sreekaryam, Thiruvananthapuram. The&nbsp; &nbsp;researcher used&nbsp; quantative research approach&nbsp; using one&nbsp; group pre test post test method.The present study was carried out on 60 samples. The variables used in this&nbsp; study&nbsp; were age, sex, monthly income, place of residence and type of family. The result shows, statistical relation between&nbsp; sex, type of family and monthly income&nbsp; .The mean pretest score 9.08+_2.38and mean post test score17+_2.83 &nbsp;</span></p>