A Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding the Effect of Screen Time on Sleep Quality Among Adolescents in Selected Areas of Pune City

Abstract

Title : “A study to assess the knowledge regarding the effect of screen time on sleep quality among adolescents in selected areas of Pune city”. Objectives: 1.To assess the knowledge regarding effect of screen time on sleep quality among adolescents. 2. To associate the research findings with selected demographic variables. Materials and methodology: A non-experimental quantitative research design is used in the study. The study was conducted in selected areas of Pune city, Maharashtra, India. Total 250 adolescents was selected for data collection. A non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from samples. The tool constructed was consisting of demographic variables to identify the samples and a set of 20 self-structured knowledge questionnaires regarding the study. Result: The major findings showed that majority 50.8% participants were in the age group of 20 to 21, 52% participants were female and 56.4% were of higher secondary education, 69.6% were from nuclear family and 41.6% participants were the first child according to the birth order. Knowledge regarding effect of screen time on sleep quality among adolescents is around 50% were having average knowledge , 45.6% were having poor knowledge, 3.6 % were having good knowledge. Knowledge mean score is 8.2 with S.D is +-3.3619. Findings related to the relationship between adolescents knowledge score and their demographic characteristics does not shown any association as the p value was larger than 0.05. Conclusion: The descriptive study was done to measure the knowledge about effect of screen time on sleep quality which showed that majority of adolescents have average knowledge score. The statistical analysis revealed that there is majority of adolescents were having average knowledge regarding the effect of screen time on sleep quality.