Assistant Professor cum Vice Principal,
Good eye health and clear vision are very important for the development of children. With proper vision, children gain knowledge and skills which will remain them their entire life. Good eye sight is every child's birth right. Eye injuries occur frequently and can happen anywhere. In children eye injuries can occur at home, school or play ground and also during the festivals. Retinal burns can occur while viewing the solar eclipse without protection. They should always be aware of the best ways to protect their eye sight. The trend of increased TV and computer exposure has led to an increase in vision-related problems in children. Very often parents don't realize that their children are suffering from vision related problems.
To assess the level of knowledge of school going children regarding common childhood ophthalmic ailments and their self care management before and after the implementation of health education, To compare the pretest and post test knowledge scores of school going children regarding common childhood ophthalmic ailments and their self care management with their demographic variables, To find out the association between post test knowledge score of the school going children regarding common childhood ophthalmic ailments and their self care management and demographic variables.
One group pre-test post-test Quasi- experimental design
The study was conducted in Government Higher Primary School, Mallapura, Chitradurga district, Karnataka.
100 school going children residing in rural areas under Chitradurga district, Karnataka.
Structured multiple choice questionnaires and a checklist. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data.
Majority of subjects 55% belong to the age group of 12–13 years and 45% of them belong to the age group of 10–11 years. Majority 60% of the subjects were males and remaining 40% of the subjects were females. The data revealed that The pretest mean is 17.98 and post test mean score is 30.17 and the ‘t’ value was 30.994. The obtained ‘t’ value 30.994 was found to be significant at (df = 99) 0.01 levels of significance. Overall mean knowledge score obtained by the subjects was 17.98(44.95%) with standard deviation of 3.21 in the pre-test and the overall knowledge obtained score was 30.17 (75.42%) with standard deviation 4.546 in the post-test. It was evident that there was a statistically significant association between the knowledge score with demographic variables like age and education at the probability level of p<0.05.
Ophthalmic ailments are common in children. Eye problem is mostly common in children due to unhygienic practice. Planned health teaching will improve the knowledge regarding self eye care.
Retinal Burns, Knowledge, School Children
