A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED

TEACHING ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING MANAGEMENT OF

CONDUCT DISORDERS AMONG MOTHERS OF SCHOOL AGED
CHILDREN IN SELECTED AREA, GUNTUR”.

Submitted By
DHANDABATHINA ANANDA JYOTSHNA
REG.NUM:20N304024002
M.Sc. Nursing (Mental Health Nursing)
SIMS COLLEGE OF NURSING
GUNTUR
Dr. NTR UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
VIJAYAWADA.
A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER-
ASSISTED TEACHING ON KNOWLEDGE AND REGARDING
MANAGEMENT OF CONDUCT DISORDER AMONG MOTHERS OF
SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN IN SELECTED AREA, IN GUNTUR.

Submitted By
DHANDABATHINA ANANDA JYOTSHNA
Regno: 19N304024001
M.Sc. Nursing (Mental Health Nursing)
SIMS COLLEGE OF NURSING
GUNTUR
Dr. NTR UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
VIJAYAWADA.
 BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the thesis entitled “a study to assess the

effectiveness of Computer-assisted teaching on knowledge regarding
management of conduct disorder among mothers of school aged children in
selected area Guntur.” Is bonafide research work done by Mrs. ANANDA
JYOTSHNA in her speciality mental health nursing, at SIMS college if

nursing.guntur.in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of M.Sc.

(N). Submitted to Dr.N.T.R University of Health Sciences Vijayawada.

Signature: _________________

Mrs.T.MERI POULEENA, M.Sc (N), MBA (HM), Ph.D

Principal

SIMS college of nursing,

Guntur.
 BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the thesis entitled “a study to assess the

effectiveness of computer assisted teaching on knowledge regarding
management of conduct disorder amog mothers of school aged children in
selected area Guntur.” Is bonafied research work done by Miss. D.ANANDA
JYOTSHNA, Reg no: 20N304024002 in her speciality mental health nursing,
at SIMS college Of nursing.guntur.in partial fulfilment of the requirement for
the degree of M.Sc.(N). Submitted to Dr.N.T.R University of Health Sciences
Vijayawada.

Signature: _______________

Research Guide
Mr.NAVAKUMAR M.Sc.(N) Associate professor,
Dept.of Mental Health Nursing,
SIMS College of nursing,
Guntur.
A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER-
ASSISTED TEACHING ON KNOWLEDGE AND REGARDING
MANAGEMENT OF CONDUCT DISORDER AMONG MOTHERS OF
SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN IN SELECTED AREA ,IN GUNTUR.

Submitted By
DHANDABATHINA ANANDA JYOTSHNA
Regno: 20N304024002
M.Sc Nursing (Mental Health Nursing)

RESEARCH ADVISOR
Mrs.T.MERI POULEENA, M.Sc (N), MBA (HM), Ph.D

Principal

SIMS college of nursing,

Guntur.

SUBMITTED TO

Dr.N.T.R UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, GUNADALA,

VIJAYAWADA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF M.Sc (NURSING)

AT

SIMS COLLEGE OF NURSING, GUNTUR, ANHDRAPRADESH.

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am thankful and ever grateful to god, for his support and strength from
the beginning to the end of this project.

At the outset, I would like to extend my heart full thanks to Dr.sivaSirisha,

secretary, and Mr.B.Bharath Reddy, Director of SIMS College of nursing.
For providing us precious opportunity to uplift my professional life of nursing
in their esteemed institution. I thank them for their personal expert guidance and
paragon suggestion the period of my study’s.

I owe my sincere thanks to M.rs.P.Pouleena Reddy, Principal, SIMS College

of Nursing for her token guidance, encouragement and supervision for the
success of my research study.

It is my heartfelt thanks and affectionate regards to my advisor

Mr.V.S.srinivasan, Assistant professor, and PG Coordinator SIMS College
of nursing. For his dedication, support, guidance, sincere commitment and
trenchant expression of ideas in success for this study.

I wish to express my deep gratitude and sincere thanks to all M.Sc.(N)

lecturers, SIMS College of Nursing for their valuable suggestions and
constant encouragement throughout the period of study.

I also express my heartfelt thanks to the managing directors of selected

hospitals, Guntur for granting permission to collect data.

I convey my deep sense of gratitude and heartfelt thanks to participants in

selected community that have participated and extended their cooperation.
I am thankful to Mr. Raja Rao Data scientist for his expert guidance in
statistical analysis.

I express my heartfelt thanks to all the experts for validating the tools and
giving suggestions and necessary correction.
I render my thanks to Librarian, SIMS College of Nursing, Guntur for his
constant help in issuing books, Journals, and Xeroxing.

D.ANANDA JYOSTHNA.
 INDEX
Chapter. Content Page.
No No
I INTRODUCTION 1-7

Need for the study 8-12

Statement of the problem 13

Objectives 13

Hypothesis 13

Assumptions 14

Delimitations 14

Conceptual frame work 15-19

II REVIEW OF LITERATURE 20-33

Studies related to the mobile phone addiction 21-25

Studies related to video game addiction. 26-29

Studies related to specific sale to pubg addiction. 30-33

III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research approach 34

Research design 35

Setting of the study 35

Population 35

Sample and sample size 36

 Sampling technique 37

Variables of the study 37

Score interpretation 38

Validity and Reliability 39

Pilot study 40

Data collection procedure 40

Ethical considerations 40

Plan for data analysis 41

IV ANALYSIS AND INTRPRETATION 41-66

V DISCUSSION 67-70

VI SUMMARY, FINDINGS, IMPLICATION 71-79

RECOMMENDATIONS, LIMITATIONS
AND CONLUSION
Summary 71

Major findings 72-74

Implications 74

Recommendations 75-77

Limitations 78

Conclusion 79

VII BIBLIOGRAPHY 80-89

 LIST OF TABLES

TABLE PAGE
TITLE
NO NO

3.1 Non randomized control group designs 35

3.2 Knowledge questionnaire scoring interpretation 39
3.3 Statistical data analysis plan 41

Frequency and percentage distribution of mothers in

4.1 45
experimental and control groups
Frequency and percentage distribution of pre-test and
post-test level of knowledge regarding management of
4.2 56
conduct disorder among mothers in experimental and
control group.
Mean, standard deviation, and paired ’t’ value of
pretest and posttest level of knowledge regarding
4.3 management of conduct disorder among mothers in 59
experimental and control group.

Mean, Standard deviation, Independent ‘t’ values of

4.4 60
the experimental group and control group.

Mean and correlation between level of knowledge

4.5 regarding management of conduct disorder among 61
mothers in control and experimental group.
Association between post test scores of knowledges
regarding management of conduct disorder among
4.6 62
mothers with their selected demographic variables in
experimental group
Association between post test scores of knowledges
regarding management of conduct disorder among
4.7 64-65
mothers with their selected demographic variables in
control group.
 LIST OF FIGURES
FIG
TITLE P.NO
NO

1.1 Conceptual frame work 19

percentage distribution of mothers according to

4.1(a) 48
their age
percentage distribution of children according to
4.1(b) 49
their age
percentage distribution ofmothers according to
4.1(c) family type 50

percentage distribution of mothers according to

4.1(d) 51
their education
percentage distribution of mothers according to
4.1(e) 52
their occupation
percentage distribution of mothers according to
4.1(f) 53
their children
percentage distribution of mothers according to
4.1(g) 54
their religion
percentage distribution of mothers according to
4.1(h) 55
their type of delivery
level of knowledge regarding management of conduct
4.2(a) 57
disorder among mothers in pretest
level of knowledge regarding management of conduct
4.2(b) 58
disorder among mothers in post test.
 LIST OF ANNEXURES
PAGE.
APPENDIX TITLE
NO

1 Letter seeking permission to conduct pilot study i

2 Letter seeking permission to conduct main study ii

3 Certificates of content validity iii

4 Editing letters iv

5 Data collection tool v

6 Master sheets vi
 ABSTRACT
INTRODUTION: An experimental study conducted by the investigator on
‘A study to assess the effectiveness computer-assisted teaching on knowledge
regarding management of conduct disorders among mothers of school aged
children in selected area, Guntur.

Objective of the study:

 To assess the pretest and posttest level of knowledge regarding
management of conduct disorders among mothers of school aged children
in experimental and control group.
 To assess the effectiveness of computer assisted teaching on level of
knowledge regarding management of conduct disorders among mothers
of school aged children in experimental group.
 To find out the association between the posttest knowledge regarding
management of conduct disorders with their selected socio-demographic
variables among mothers of school aged children in experimental and
control group.

METHODS:

Two group pre-test and post-test design, quasi experimental study design.
The samples for the study consist of 60 degree selected by probability
convenient sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was used to assess
the knowledge and attitude. The data obtained was analysed and interpreted
with the help of descriptive and inferential statistics and the level of significance
was set at the level of 0.05 level
Results: The present level of knowledge was in pre- test control group was
8.800
and standard deviation was 2.605, the experimental mean was 8.466, and
standard deviation was3.181. The post -test control group mean was 6.433, and
standard deviation was 1.546, the experimental mean was 19.36and standard
deviation was3.337.

In experimental group in pretest no one is having adequate and moderate

knowledge regarding management of conduct .Where as in post-test in
experimental group mothers were exhibited adequate knowledge were
5(16.7%)and 23(73.3%) were in moderate knowledge and 3(10%)were in
inadequate knowledge
In control group in pretest 5( 16.7%) were in inadequate knowledge and
10(33.3%) moderate knowledge and adequate knowledge was 15(50%) Where
as in post-test 28(93.3%) students were in inadequate knowledge and 2(6.6%)
were in moderately knowledge. The study results shows that the computer
assisted teaching was effective 3.3% gaining knowledge regarding management
of conduct disorder among mothers as there was a significant difference
between the post-test stress scores of (t=14.633,p=0.000,p<0.05) experimental
and control group respectively. There is significant association between the post
test level of knowledge and regarding management of conduct disorder with
selected demographic variables such as age of mother ,age of children, mother
education, mother occupation, family type, religion, type of delivery.

Conclusion:

This study shows the improvement in mothers knowledge regarding

management of conduct disorder after the educational intervention.