Effectiveness of Motivational Techniques on Learning Skills Among First Year B.SC. Nursing Students in a Selected College of Nursing, Thrissur

Motivational techniques are a driving force that impels one to enforce. The aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of motivational techniques on learning skills among first year B.Sc nursing students in a selected college of nursing, Thrissur. The objectives of the study is to assess the pretest level of learning skills, posttest level of learning skills among the first year B.Sc nursing students and also to determine the effectiveness of motivational techniques on learning skills and to identify the association between learning skills among the first year B.Sc nursing students and selected demographic variables. Forty seven students of the first year students were selected from the Snehodaya college of nursing, Vallakkunnu. Samples are selected through convenient sampling techniques. The research design selected for study was pre experimental design. Data was collected by using structured questionnaire before the interventional programme. Motivational techniques were given for 12 days and post test was conducted. After the completion of the study it was revealed that 8.5% of first year BSc nursing students have excellent learning skills in pretest and 74.4% have excellent learning skills in post test. 66% have good learning skills in pretest and 25.5 % in post test. 25.5% have average learning skills in pre test and none of them have average learning skill in post test. The mean post test score (71.67) is higher than mean pre test score (57.56). The t test showed improved coping (t=16.10, t₄₆=2.02) at p<0.05. Among the selected demographic variable, type of school studied (χ²=25.505), was associated with learning skill among first year BSc nursing students. For the other variables there is no association. It was found that after the administration of motivational techniques there was marked improvement in the learning skill among first year BSc nursing students.