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KMID : 0606120050110040405
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Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing
2005 Volume.11 No. 4 p.405 ~ p.414
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School Nurses’ Knowledge, Educational Needs and Providing Education about Internet Addiction
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was a cross-sectional descriptive survey to identify school nurses’’ knowledge, educational needs and providing education about Internet addiction.
Method: A total of 198 school nurses working in schools located in Gyunggi Province and the cities of Ulsan, Daegu, and Pohang participated in the study A self-report scale was used to collect data. It included 53 items measuring school nurses’’ knowledge, their educational needs and performing related to Internet addiction.
Results: The mean score for knowledge of Internet addiction was 13.12 (SD=3.13), indicating a moderate level of knowledge. The highest frequency, 24.7% of the school nurses agreed that the computer teacher is the appropriate person to do educate on Internet addiction, followed by the school nurse with another teacher (24.2%). Only 40.4% of the nurses had any experience in providing students with education about Internet addiction. The main reason for not providing education about Internet addiction was that there was no time (57.6%). Education was reported most frequently as being provided by the class teacher (36.3%), followed by school nurse (31.3%).
Conclusions: It is important to expand the role of school nurses in preventing and responding to Internet addiction and to develop training programs designed to further develop their abilities in teaching and counseling.
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