Rachel Priyanka Pulla
KLE University, India
Title: A study of impact of new media technology on the health-related quality of life among middle adolescents
Biography
Biography: Rachel Priyanka Pulla
Abstract
We see an increasing change in media usage trend in our evolving generation as we now are in the cusp of Digital Pioneers who are born in an evolved technology era; they see multitasking and instant communication as an efficient way of life. They imbibed technology to save time and balance both family and virtual world. They are a force of informal learners. They are challenging us to rethink our definition of basic functionality and New media technology effect on Health-related quality of life and how we approach Media literacy. We must be armed and ready to face that challenge and to ensure that they reap the potential benefits as safely as possible. In this study, we enrolled 1050 adolescent participants and performed a Community-based descriptive cross-sectional study and determined the Health-related quality of life, and the new media technology frequencies and pattern of usage among middle adolescent school going children. We also determined the Impact of New media on the health-related quality of life of middle adolescents using the KIDSCREEN 52 questionnaire tool. This study assesses adolescents subjective health and well-being in 10 different domains and compared them with the usage of New Media Technologies to learn their Health-related quality of life(HRQoL) outcomes and categorized into low and high HRQOL based on the cut off 40(below and above respectively) described in the ten domains of the Kidscreen 52 into light,moderate and heavy Users. In conclusion, the Overall majority of them had a perception of high HRQOL indicating moderate usage of Digital technologies is more a way of life.