DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjams.2025.v13i11.005

Pages: 1826-1832

Background: smart phone addiction is a behavioral addiction characterized by excessive or compulsive use of smart phones, often leading to negative impacts on daily life, relationships, and mental/physical health. Methodology: A pre-experimental design with one group pre – test, post – test without control group design was used to assess Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programmed programmed on knowledge regarding Health hazards of smart phone addiction among school going students at selected schools of Bagalkot. Simple random technique used to select 100 school going students. Data were analyzed by using Descriptive and Inferential statistics. Results: The overall findings of the study revealed that the school going students gain more knowledge in post-test score (17.7±1.73) which was 59.0 % of the total score and pre-test knowledge score (7.96 ±1.9) which was 26.5 % of the total score. The Effectiveness of STP on knowledge regarding health hazards of smart phone addiction was of 9.74 with SD ± 0.25 which was 32.5% of total score. There was significant association between pretest knowledge scores of school going students with their socio demographic variables, Type of family (2=0.031611, P=0.05), Hence, the Hypothesis is accepted for type of family and is significance and rejected for other socio demographic variables and there was no significant association between knowledge scores and other socio demographic variables. Conclusion: Finally, the study concluded that the structured teaching progranne was significantly more effective in improving the knowledge level of the school going students regarding the health hazards of smart phone addiction.