Effectiveness of Video Assisted Teaching on Hazards of Plastics and Its Safe Disposal

Community health education services are cost effective and powerful means of raising the standards of community health, especially for the future generation. Community is considered as a best setting for promoting positive health through prevention of diseases and awakening the health consciousness through which the country can grows and develops. A pre experimental study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching about hazards of plastics and its safe disposal among the housewives residing at selected urban area at Choolai in Chennai. Totally 100 housewives those who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected by convenient sampling technique. A pre-test was conducted by using structured questionnaire followed by video assisted teaching programme. After 7 days of post-test the result revealed that the video assisted teaching programme had an impact on improving the level of knowledge on hazards of plastic and its safe disposal among housewives.