Effectiveness of Health Education Session on Knowledge of High School Students Regarding Plastic Use and Its Health Hazards

Abstract

Introduction: Plastic is widely used due to its low cost and different functional properties but it has many severe adverse effects on consumer’s health in many direct and indirect ways. Plastic waste pollutes the environment and it is a threat to human life. So, there is a great need to reduce plastic use and plastic waste hazards. Methods: A quasi- experimental, quantitative, before and after study design was conducted  among the students total (n= 60) in the high school of Ali Raza Abad Raiwind Road Lahore, Pakistan from September 2018 to December 2018. The educational intervention involve three education session about plastic use and its health hazards in which the researcher educate the students about health hazards of plastics, prevention of plastic objects as well as health complications.  Results: A total of 60 children participated in the study, the majority of the participants were boys. The mean before the educational intervention is 8.98 (Standard deviation 3.281) and after the educational intervention is 16.85 (Standard deviation 3.036). The mean difference between the two mean is 7.867. There is a statistically significant difference before and after the educational intervention. The educational intervention is highly effective because the significant value is 0.00 Conclusions: The result of the study shows that students have adequate knowledge about health hazards of plastic use. The ill effects of plastic can be reduce by educational intervention among students.

Keywords-Plastic use. Health education. Health hazards

DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/72-09

Publication date:March 31^st 2020