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The research work undertook was "A descriptive study to assess the knowledge of mothers regarding mobile phone use and mobile phone addiction among middle school children at Kollam“. The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge of mothers of middle school children and to find out the association between knowledge regarding mobile phone use and mobile phone addiction among middle school children and selected demographic variables such as age of mother, number of child, age of child, gender of child, education of mother, occupation of mother, monthly income, type of family. A quantitative approach was used with Non- probability convenient sampling method. The Sample consists of 60 mothers of children between 5 to 18 years residing at Kollam. The data collected by using self- structured questionnaire. The tool was found to be reliable (0.8). The study result shows that there was significant association between gender of child, education of mother, monthly income of family, type of family among mothers of middle school children (calculated value >tabulated value) at 0.05 level of significance. There is no significant association between age of mother, number of children, age of children and occupation of mother. Based on the findings the investigators have drawn implication which were of vital concerns in the field of nursing practice, nursing administration and nursing education for future development.

A study was assess to find the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding behavioural problems of children among mothers in selected areas at kollam .The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding behavioral problems of children among mothers, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding behavioural problems of children among mothers and to find out the association between knowledge regarding behavioural problems of children among mothers and selected demographic variables like age of mothers, living area, number of children, education of mothers, age of marriage, monthly income, occupation of mothers and types of family. A quantitative research approach was used with one group pretest posttest only design. Convenience sampling was used. Sample size was 50. The investigator assessed the knowledge of mothers using structured questionnaire regarding behavioral problems of children. After conducting the pretest, the researcher provided structured teaching programme for a period of 40 minutes on the same day. After one week Posttest was conducted using the same research tool. It is found that the calculated t value (17.35) is greater than table value. There is significant difference between pretest and posttest knowledge scores of mothers. There is no association between pretest knowledge and selected demographic variables. The finding of the study suggests that structured teaching programme is effective in increasing the knowledge of mothers regarding behavioral problems of children.