Workshop to Increase Awareness of Healthy Smartphone Usage Practices among School Students in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Grant Awardee: Aashish Ranjan
The project aimed to increase awareness of healthy smartphone usage practices among school students in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Through school-based workshops, the project addressed key aspects of digital wellbeing, including healthy smartphone use, Fear of Missing Out (FOMO), screen time management, onl ine privacy, and responsible content creation. The intervention was delivered across seven private schools and adapted to practical school-level constraints, demonstrating the feasibility of a brief, school-based digital wellbeing intervention.
Project Highlights:
Reached 310 students from classes 6–12 across seven schools in Bhopal.
Developed and delivered a structured workshop covering five key areas of healthy smartphone use and digital wellbeing.
Improved students’ learning outcome, with mean scores increasing from 3.14 to 3.62 out of 6 (p < 0.001).
Increased the proportion of high scorers from 38.7% to 56.1%, with the modal score shifting from 3 to 5.
96.4% expressed an intention to adopt at least one healthier smartphone habit.
Developed implementation and assessment learnings to inform future scale-up across schools and districts.