• Dr. Cindrella D'Mello

Students' health and wellbeing are seriously threatened by heavy school bags. It has a serious, detrimental physical impact on developing children that can harm their knees and vertebral column. In addition, it makes them anxious. Students who carry heavy backpacks often experience tiredness, muscle soreness, back pain, distortion of the natural curvature of the spine, rounding of the shoulders, poor body posture, and attention span problems. In extreme cases, carrying heavy school bags might also result in lumbar and cervical pain. Moreover, in the schools which are functioning in multi-storeyed buildings, the children have to climb the steps with heavy school bags, which further aggravates the problem and health consequences. The present study aimed at studying the impact of heavy school bags on physical and psychological health of the students. Descriptive and survey method was used for this study. A rating scale prepared by the researcher was used to quantify the response. The findings of the study showed that the students get tired by carrying the school bags. They also experience back pain, leg pain and shoulder pain. These factors definitely impacts their attention in classrooms throughout the day.

Keywords: Physical and Psychological Health, School Bags

"Impact of Heavy School Bags on the Physical and Psychological Health of the Secondary School Students", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no.h207-h211, December-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312725.pdf

"Impact of Heavy School Bags on the Physical and Psychological Health of the Secondary School Students", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no. pph207-h211, December-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312725.pdf