INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCE RESEARCH
IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY

The prevalence of nomophobia is very high among adolescents. Adolescents need to be aware the new disease which have come across through the over usage of mobile phone. Nowadays very easy to convey our feelings and messages in the remote comers of the world through the of mobile phone technology. The communication through the mobile phone is very simple basics of all relations Mobile technology helps the people to transfer the message form one to other within short period of time. Based on this the present study was carried to asses effectiveness of planned teaching programme on the knowledge and prevalence of the level of nomophobia among the selected colleges of Ahmedabad district of Gujarat. Pre-experimental study was carried out among college students with one group pre test and post test was used to find out the findings of the study. The purposive sampling technique was used to carry o study, 50 College students were selected from different college. Data collected with the help of structured demographic questionnaire and the structured Knowledge questionnaire. Pre test was conducted on the first day and on the same day teaching program was given to the students and the effectiveness of the teaching programme was checked on the eighth day. The overall test knowledge score was to be 43.4% where the overall post test knowledge score was found to be 85.5% which was to be very significant. An association was also carried to find out the significance of the socio demographic characteristics on the knowledge score.