RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES

BANGALORE, KARNATAKA.
PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECT FOR DISSERTATION
Mr. SUBHAM SINGH
1 NAME OF THE CANDIDATE
I YEAR M.Sc. NURSING STUDENT,

AND ADDRESS N.D.R.K. COLLEGE OF NURSING

B.M ROAD HASSAN,KARNATAKA

2 NAME OF THE N.D.R.K. COLLEGE OF NURSING, B.M. ROAD,

INSTITUTION HASSAN, KARNATAKA.

3 COURSE OF THE STUDY MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

AND SUBJECT (COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING)

4 DATE AND ADMISSION TO 29/06/2012

THE COURSE

“ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED

TEACHING PROGRAMME ON IMPACT OF
MOBILE PHONE AND INTERNET USAGE AND THE
5 TITLE OF THE TOPIC SELF REPORTED BEHAVIOR CHANGES AMONG
THE B.E. STUDENTS OF SELECTED ENGINEERING
COLLEGES AT HASSAN.”
“A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
5.1 STATEMENT OF THE STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON
PROBLEM IMPACT OF MOBILE PHONE AND INTERNET
USAGE AND THE SELF REPORTED BEHAVIOR
CHANGES AMONG THE B.E. STUDENTS OF
SELECTED ENGINEERING COLLEGES AT
HASSAN.”

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6. BRIEF RESUME OF THE INTENDED WORK:

6.1 INTRODUCTION:

“Any form of art is a form of power, it has impact, it can affect change-it can not only
move us it makes us move : Ossie Davis

By the turn of the century, information, including access to the Internet, will be the
basis for personal, economic, and political advancement. The popular name for the Internet is
the information superhighway. Whether you want to find the latest financial news, browse
through library catalogs, exchange information with colleagues, or join in a lively political
debate, the Internet is the tool that will take you beyond telephones, faxes, and isolated
computers to a burgeoning networked information frontier. 1

The rapidly evolving mobile phone technology raised public concern about the
possibility of associated adverse health effects. World wide, more than 500 million mobile
phones arein use and the number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion in 2005 [107]. To
operate these handheld devices, a dense network of base stations is needed to transmit the
phone calls. Currently, there are more than 60 million mobile phone users and more than
50000 base stations in Germany [91]. The number of base stations is expected to increase
within thenext years due to the invention of the „Universal Mobile Telecommunications
System (UMTS)“ technology [21]. 2

The Internet and mobile phone has greatly changed the way people to communicate
today. Many Internet terms have become part of people's everyday language and e-mail has
added a whole new means through which people can communicate. The following tutorials
will introduce you to the Internet and the tools you need to explore it. So the internet and
mobile phones became a part of people’s living because of its importance.

The communication technology has become one of the important technologies in the
last thirty years of the late of the twentieth century. The communications Technology
industry is still grow significantly. Also, it is likely to increase growth in the coming years.

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  Sharing and exchanging information
 Personal communication
 E-commerce (selling things on a Web sites)
 Connect people
 Messaging

This rapid development in communication technology has increased concern for our
future generation. If there are adverse health effects of mobile phone use is not clear at this
time. Although if there is any side effect will be more severely affected on children, because
their nervous system still continues to grow. It will be affected tissues of the head for more
energy, especially with the length of exposure. It is believe that the diffusion of mobile phone
use by children should be avoided especially for non-essential.

Also Still mobile technology is relatively new. This is why the scientists and
researchers in all over the world are conducting studies and research in an attempt to
understand the effects of this small device. 3

6.2 NEED FOR THE STUDY:

Twenty first century has witnessed technological advancement and rapid changes in
mass media. The traditional mass media like radio and print material etc are losing their
importance nowadays whereas the newer one such as computer, mobile phone, video games
and television etc, are gaining more importance among teens and children. Children begin to
learn computer even when they are very young as it is one of the subjects taught in many
school even from first standard4. Mass media are especially influential in imparting
knowledge to the young people and socializing them to particular aspiration, values and
attitudes. During the transition period from adolescence to young adults; youth learn how to
behave from their peers and increasingly from the mass media. In today’s world youth are
mostly using internet as a media and mobile phone becomes essential part of their daily life
and also they play an inevitable role today in the life of young children.

India is world’s second largest market after China based on the mobile subscriber
base. The growth rate of telecom industry in India is one of the highest compared to other
telecom markets in the world. The mobile sector has grown more than tenfold from 2004 to

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around 392 million subscribers by mid-2009.India is among top 10 nations using smart
phones offering mobile internet ideal for corporate and business professionals.

According to the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB
International, mobile phone users in India have reached approximately 471 million in the
month of September 2009, up from 392 million in March 2009.And internet users in India
have reached 57 million in September 2008. Active Internet users (58%) have accessed
through cyber cafes. This is followed by Internet access through office (37%), home (33%)
and others5.India is 3rd in Asia and 19-40years age group is major section (85%) using
internet in India. Majority 85% of internet users in India are males, 15% older men, 14%
school going kids and 21% college students use internet in India. Among this 2/3rd of users
use internet 2-3 times week.6

China which has the world’s largest population of mobile phone users is now facing a
new type of mental disease called “mobile phone dependent syndrome “especially among the
adolescents and impact of mobile phone is on three major areas of our life which is
evident- society, family relationship and work.The study also revealed among Chinese
internet users,13% under the age of 18 , 23% those in age between 18-30 years ,9% of those
aged between 35 and 49 randomly 3%of those above 50 were internet addicts.

A Study was conducted among youth aged between 16-20yrs to determine the
connection between consumption patterns and mobile phone use .An addictive uses of the
phone was related to trendy and impulsive consumption styles and prevalent among females.
Technology enthusiasm and trend consciousness was linked to impulsive and hard values
prevalent among males.7

A survey was conducted among secondary school children to find out more about the
activities and opinions regarding internet use. Study revealed that children are quite
comfortable with the internet use. Boys were more likely to use the internet than girls and
mobile phones were also used for making calls and text messaging.8

A study was conducted to examine relationships among mobile phones, social

networks and academic performance among undergraduate students in the U.S.A .Heavy
mobile phone users reported that they had a better relationship with their friends and parents.

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Additionally, frequent mobile users also reported that highly consistent use of their mobile
phones affected their academic performance and learning.9

From the above studies it is clear that the internet use is become popular among
adolescents’ and some promote addictive behavior and intimate interpersonal relationships.
Most of them will soon face with addictive issues and there mobile use with consequences of
obsession is slowly growing. Hence the researcher is interested in studying the impact of
mobile phone and internet use among higher secondary school student.

6.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:

“A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on impact

of mobile phone and internet usage and the self reported behavior changes
among the B.E. students of selected engineering colleges at Hassan.”

6.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

The objectives of the study are:

 To assess the pre test knowledge on the impact of mobile phone and internet usage
among the B.E. students of selected engineering colleges, Hassan.

 To prepare and administer the structured teaching programmes on the impact of

mobile phone and internet usage among the B.E. students of selected engineering
colleges, Hassan.

 To assess the post test knowledge on the impact of mobile phone and internet usage
among the B.E. students of selected engineering colleges, Hassan.

 To assess the self reported behaviour changes due to the impact of mobile phone and
internet usage by using behavioural changes scale among the B.E. students of
selected engineering colleges, Hassan.

 To find out the association between the demographic variables and post test/ pre test
knowledge among the B.E. students of selected engineering colleges, Hassan.

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6.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS:

H1: There will be a significant association between the post test knowledge score of pre test
knowledge due to the impact of mobile phone and internet usage.

H2: There will be a significant association between mobile phone use and selected baseline
characteristics (gender, religion, present place of stay, family income, area of residence, and
parent’s occupation.)

H3: There will be a significant association between internet use and selected baseline
characteristics (gender, religion, present place of stay, family income, area of residence, and
parent’s occupation.).

H4: There will be a significant changes in the behaviours due to the impact of mobile phone
and internet usage.

6.6 ASSUMPTIONS:

- Students may have exposure to the mobile phone and internet use.

- Students may feel free to express their opinion to the questionnaire.

- Students may have awareness about the correct use of mobile phone and internet.

- Students may have the behavioral changes due to the impact of mobile phone and
internet usage.

6.7 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION:

Assess: To make the judgment about the understanding knowledge level of the students
studying engineering regarding Mobile phone and internet use.

Effectiveness: It is the significant increase in knowledge of engineering students regarding

mobile phone and internet use.

Structured Teaching Programme: Structured Teaching Programme refers to systematically

developed instructions for engineering students regarding mobile phone and internet use.

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Impact: In this study it refers to the behavior change caused by the use of internet and
mobile phone measured in terms of mobile phone and internet use rating scale.

Mobile phone: In this study it refers to a multi-media technology that has been used for
communicating, passing text messages and recreational purposes.

Internet: In this study it refers to the use of a website media for communicating, interacting,
educational and recreational purposes.

Self reported behavior change: In this study it refers to change in the student’s act or
performance without being expected, due to use of mobile and internet use. Behavior changes
included for this study are:-addiction problem, problematic and non problematic use of
mobile phone, internet, social interaction, academic performances.

B.E. Students: In this study it refers to students who are studying engineering in selected
engineering colleges.

6.8 CRITERIA FOR SAMPLE SELECTION:

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

 I, II, III, IV Year of B. E. Students studying in selected engineering college

Yagachi Institute of technology and Rajiv Institute of Engineering at Hassan.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

 Students those who are undergoing other courses.

 Students not present during the time of the study.

6.9 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY:

The study is limited to,

 The students of selected engineering college Yagachi Institute of technology and
Rajiv Institute of Engineering at Hassan.
 Sample size is limited to 200.
 Study period is limited to 4-6 weeks.

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6.10 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY:

 This study will assess impact of mobile phone and internet use on engineering
students of selected engineering college Yagachi Institute of technology and Rajiv
Institute of Engineering at Hassan.
 This study will promote the knowledge of students regarding the safe use of
mobile phone and internet.

6.11 CONCEPTUAL FRAME WORK:

- Will form later

6.12 REVIEW OF LITERATURE:

Review of literature is an important step in research. The review of literature on a topic of

interest often prepared to put a research problem in context or as the basic for an
implementation project. It can help with orientation to what is known about an area of
enquiry to ascertain what research can best make a contribution to the existing base of
evidence.
Review of literature is an essential activity of scientific research project10. The
available literatures related to this research study were organized under the following
headings.

1. Use of mobile phone.

2. Use of internet.

Use of mobile phone:

An exploratory study was conducted to determine the usage pattern of, and attitude
about cell phones among university students in a mature market (United States) and a rapidly
growing new market (India) by surveying students from each country. Key findings from the
study include similarities in the usage of phones to communicate with others and in the
perception of mobile phone usage in public settings, and differences in the use of text
messaging and opinions regarding driving and mobile phone usage .Overall these results
suggest students in India use mobile phones differently from their American counterparts. In
developing country like India, mobile phones may be the primary and only phone to which
students have acess.11

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 A case study on mobile phone use by young adults in India was conducted in two
phases using a mixed-methods approach. In the first phase, in-depth interviews were
conducted with 30 college-going young adults (18 – 24 years) in Mumbai and Kanpur in
December 2007 and January 2008. In the second phase, a survey was conducted among 400
college-going young adults (18 – 24 years) in Mumbai and Kanpur. The qualitative analysis
of the data showed that young people in both the cities used cell phones for a variety of
communication, news and entertainment needs. Additionally they considered cell phones as
personal items and used them to store private content, maintain privacy and have private
conversations. Further, the analysis showed that they used cell phones to negotiate
independence from parents and to maintain friendships and create friendships with members
of opposite sex. The quantitative analysis of the data revealed that young people in the two
cities used cell phones differently due to the differences in their lifestyles and socio-cultural
factors.12
An epidemiological study on mobile phone use and brain tumor risk was conducted by
Institute Of Medical Biostatistics and Informatics (IMBEI) at Johannes Gutenberg University
in Germany. The use of mobile phones among young children and adolescents is also found
in this study. Health-risk research has mainly focused on adults and on a single outcome,
brain tumors. No significant relationship has been established between mobile phone use and
the incidence or growth of brain tumors. Alternatively indicates emerging concerns, including
hearing problems and self-reported health symptoms, such as tiredness, stress, headache,
anxiety, concentration difficulties and sleep disturbances, but results remain inconclusive.
Currently, there is little epidemiological evidence indicating that the use of mobile phones
causes adverse health effects.13
A survey was conducted on cell phone use and their friendships among high school
students in Japan. The study revealed that half of the students who use cell phone have
dependency symptoms; other number of students felt that they could not go without cell
phone and more than half of the students were not using cell phones, wanted new one.The
study also reveal that students feel left out socially if they do not have a cell phone.14

Use of internet:

A meta research project reviewed the results of 16 studies involving 35,578 responds
and 48 relationships between internet use and social involvement .The study concluded that
internet use is not associated with social interaction within family members and found
contradictory evidence concerning social interaction with friends.The study also examined
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out of seventy four relationship, ten were significantly positive and twelve were significantly
negative.15

A study was conducted to determine the social impacts of internet use or non use by
nationally representative survey from 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2000.The main themes covered
in the surveys are access, community/political involvement, and social interaction. Survey
results concluded that internet usage is associated with increased community and political
involvement, and significant and increased online and off line social interaction.16

A study was conducted to identify the prevalence of internet abuse and the presence of
multiple addictions among 275 high school students in Florence, Italy. The study found that
5.4% of the students were addicted to internet use and study concluded that behavioral
addiction are multiple, a source of disability, and they are related to substance abuse.

7. MATERIALS AND METHODS OF STUDY:

7.1. Sources of data:

Data will be collected from students who are studying engineering who fulfill the
inclusion criteria.

7.2. Research design:

7.2.1 Experimental Design: An experimental study design will be used for the study.

 Pre Test-Post Test Control Group Design:

Group Pre-test Intervention Post-test

Experimental Group 01 02 03
R

Control Group 01 X 03

Key words:

R= Randomization

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01=Pre-test knowledge of engineering students regarding mobile phone and internet use.

02=Structured teaching programme on impact of mobile phone and internet use.

03=Post-test knowledge of engineering students regarding on impact of mobile phone and

internet use.

8. METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION:

The tools developed for this study consist of:

Tool 1. Structured questionnaire on mobile and internet use.

Part 1 : Demographic Data- Structured teaching programme on impact of mobile phone and
internet usage

Part 2: mobile phone use scale

Part 3: internet use scale

9. SAMPLING PROCEDURE:

9.1. Setting:

The study will be conducted in Yagachi Institute of Technology and Rajiv Institute of
Engineering at Hassan. Yagachi Institute of Technology is situated 7 Km. away from NDRK
College. The college is running under private management and has a total strength of 693.

Rajiv Institute of Engineering is situated 2 Km. away from NDRK College. The college
is running under private management and has a total strength of 480.

9.2. Population:

The population in this study includes students who are studying in engineering college.

Data will be collecting from engineering students those who are studying in Yagachi
Institute of Technology and Rajiv Institute of Engineering at Hassan.

9.3. Sample:

Engineering students those who are studying in Yagachi Institute of Technology and
Rajiv Institute of Engineering at Hassan.

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9.4. Sample size:

In this study sample size consists of 200 engineering students.

9.5. Sampling Technique:

SRS Technique

10. PILOT STUDY:

10%Population is planned for the pilot study.

11. VARIABLES:

 INDEPENDENT VARIABLE:
A study to assess impact on mobile phone and internet use on selected students in
Yagachi Institute of Technology and Rajiv Institute of Engineering at Hassan.

 DEPENDENT VARIABLE:

Knowledge of engineering students in selected engineering college of Hassan

regarding the mobile phone and internet use.

8. PLAN FOR DATA ANALYSIS:

Descriptive Statistics:

It includes (%) Mean Median, Mode, Frequency, Standard deviation for engineering
students in selected engineering college of Hassan regarding the mobile phone and
internet use.

Inferential Statistics:
Chi-square test is planned to assess the knowledge and to associate with the baseline
variables.

9. 11. ETHICAL CONSIDERATION:

1. Has the consent been taken from the engineering students?

………Yes. Informed consent will be taken from the students.

2. Has ethical clearance being obtained from your institution?

………Yes.

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 SIGNATURE OF THE
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CANDIDATE

The impact of mobile phone and internet usage is

prime now a days and also the ill effects are also
14 REMARKS OF THE GUIDE more. This study will enhance the .population
about the hazards of mobile phone and internet
usage .

NAME AND DESIGNATION

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OF Prof. BERNICE MARGARET

15.1 GUIDE
Prof. BERNICE MARGARET

15.2 SIGNATURE

HEAD OF THE
15.3
DEPARTMENT Prof. BERNICE MARGARET

15.4 SIGNATURE

The impact of mobile phone and internet usage is

prime now a days and also the ill effects are also
REMARKS OF THE
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PRINCIPAL
about the hazards of mobile phone and internet
usage.

16.1 SIGNATURE

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