“A STUDY TO ASSESS EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING PROGRAMME ON EYE PROBLEMS AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN (6 TO 12 YEARS) IN SELECTED SCHOOLS OF KANPUR, U.P”.

Abstract

Children are our most valuable natural resources raising or child is survey one of the most blissful events of any parent’s life.To prepare your child for this sudden change there are few things which need to be taken care of such as the heath academic performance social physical and psychological factors, for the overall development the efficiency of the sense organs is important eyes are the most treasured organs of human beings Much ocular Morbidity originates in childhood and if undetected my result in severe ocular disabilities.Evaluative Approach,Quasi– experimental design – one group pretest – post test design with sample size
60by using Random sampling technique.with regard to age of children’s 8 (27%) are between 6 - 7 years, 12 (40%) are between 8 - 9 years, 10 (33%) are between 10 - 12 years of age.with regard to pretest level of knowledge 19 (63%) are having poor knowledge, 7 (23%) are having average knowledge and 4 (13%) are having good knowledge regarding eye problems among school children. Whereas among posttest 4 (13%) are having poor knowledge, 5 (17%) are having average knowledge, and 21 (70%) is having good knowledge.The study concluded after completion of structure teaching programme the knowledge level was improved. It was inferred that there was significant level of pre and post test knowledge among school children in selected schools of Kanpur