Abstract

Good health is wealth, but majority of us undermine our personal health, and become more careless about our children’s mental and physical state day-by-day, caused by the excessive usage of cell phones. A recent survey found that 92% of world population has mobile phones today. Among which 31% admit that they never turn off their mobile phones. More than 90% of parents provide their kids cell phones in world, so they can easily keep in touch whenever they want to. All of this gives sufficient ground to talk about a cell phone addiction, especially about the possible dangers of cell phones on children’s health.

Objectives: To assess the behavioral changes related to Continuous mobile phone using observed by parents of preschool children. To find out association with selected demographic variables and behavior changes.

Methodology: The research approach was descriptive approach and research design is a one group. The study was conduct on preschool children at OPD SAIMS Hospital Indore. Nonprobability convenience sampling techniques adopt. Number of sample size is 30 who using the mobile phone frequently. Data collection was done by the researcher. Data was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics came up with the following findings.

Result: The result show of the study in their 30 sample (10%) day preschool were having mild behavior change, (85.45%) preschool were having moderate behavior change and (5.55%) preschool were having severe behavior change. Due to continuous time spent on the phone. Found that those participants who spent more time with phone lead to more behavior changes. Statically there is no any significant association was found.

Recommendation: The findings of the present study can be used as a guide of future research. Interventional study can be undertaken to reduce the behavior change. A study can be conducted in preventing aspect of stress. To make the recommendation to the government to arrange compulsory medical check-up on the yearly basis for the nursing personnel.

Conclusion: The present study was aimed at assessing the level behavior change among preschool children. This shows that these variables had influence level of behavior change in the study.

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