Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part C (2025)

Background: Internet is becoming very essential in our life. Internet usage is increasing worldwide. student nurses are using internet for both education and entertainment purposes. Internet addiction (IA) has emerged as a potential problem in young people. Internet addiction is the most modern type of behavioral addiction. India has billion of residents but only 52 million of them use internet regularly. In all 2009, of which 52 million were active users who did so at least once each month. The Internet is becoming increasingly addictive for young people in India; 72% of them use it often.

Methods: this study included the Quantitative research approach, pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test research design. 80 Nursing students were selected by using Non-probability Convenient Sampling technique. On first day pre- test was done by using the Self-administered questionnaire, Explain about effect of internet addiction. On 7th day post-test was done by using Self-administered questionnaire, to check the effect of Structured teaching program on knowledge regarding effect of internet addiction among Nursing students. The data obtained were analyzed and interpreted by using both descriptive and inferential statistical in terms of frequency, percentage, and chi-square.

Results: The knowledge regarding effect of internet addiction among Nursing students was assessed. the ‘z’ value 14.52 is significantly higher than the table value 1.96 at 0.05 level significance. This indicates that there was a difference in the pre-test and post-test knowledge score of respondents and the Structured teaching programme is effective in improving the knowledge score of Nursing students, hence the H₁ hypothesis was proved and accepted. There is an association between pre- test knowledge score with selected Socio- demographic variables; hence the research hypothesis (H₂) is accepted.

Conclusion: This study concludes that there is improvement in the level of knowledge Nursing students which indicate that the Structured teaching programme is effective. The demographic variables of Nursing students significantly associated with the pre- test knowledge score. The development of Structured teaching programme will help the Nursing students to enhance their knowledge.