Effectiveness of mobile based eye health promotion strategies among school children

The eye is our organ of light. Visual deficit is a risk factor for sensory development. Early detection leads to effective treatment of vision problems in children. This study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of mobile based eye health promotion strategies in increasing knowledge on eye health among school students. The quantitative research approach, pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted among school children using convenient sampling technique for the study. The demographic data and the structured questionnaire were used to collect the data. Post-test was conducted after two weeks and results were compared. The pretest mean and standard deviation were 8.90 and 4.2738 and posttest mean and standard deviation were 17.9454 and 2.7941. The data showed that there is significant improvement in the knowledge level after the intervention. Awareness and knowledge about eye health promotion were inadequate among school children and mobile based education was found to be cheap, fast and effective advocacy strategy.