Volume :
5
Issue :
1
Abstract :
Background Today’s children are in a world of rapid development. Optimal mental health is essential to cope with this development and to overcome the stress related to it. Environment plays a major role in the intellectual development. Television being a part of the present environment attracts children who spend hours watching both suitable and unsuitable programmes. The television also acts as a baby sitter. Aims and objectives The study aimed at assessing television viewing habits of school age children in order to know its impact on the behavior and weight status of children and also assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on effect of television on children to care givers. Find the correlation between habit of television viewing with weight status and behavior scores and determine the association between television viewing habit, behavior and weight status scores with selected demographic variables. Materials and methods Television viewing habits and behavior of school age children and attitude of parents was assessed by rating scale, knowledge was assessed by structured knowledge questionnaire and weight status was measured by BMI by checking weight and height of school age children. Interview method was used for data collection. Results The study results shows that 65% of children had average habit of TV viewing out of 40 school age children, 60% have poor behavior, 40% children are in