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Mathias, Janet
- A Study to Assess the Knowledge and Effect of Nomophobia Among Students of Selected Degree Colleges in Mysore
Authors
1 JSS College of Nursing, Mysore, Karnataka, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 4, No 4 (2014), Pagination: 421-428Abstract
Nomophobia is a new term, defined as the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. People, especially teenagers get very anxious when they lose their mobile phone, run out of battery or credit or due to less network coverage. The ignorance of the disadvantage among adolescents has led to a long way of health hazards. So, it is best to sensitize and alert them regarding the ill effects of nomophobia, which prevents them from further risks.
Aims and objectives: This study was aimed to assess the mobile phone dependence, knowledge, effect of nomophobia and to determine the relationship between knowledge and effect of nomophobia with their selected personal variables.
Approach and design: An exploratory survey approach was used in this study. Sample and sampling criteria: The sample consisted of 200 degree college students who were in the age group of 18 - 23 years were selected by Non probability purposive sampling technique.
Tools and technique: Tools consisted of Proforma for selected personal variables, self- administered structured knowledge questionnaire about nomophobia, rating scale to assess the effect of nomophobia.
Results: The majority (83%) of the sample were 18 - 20 years of age; 41.5% of them were interested in mobile/ computer games and chat and 59.5% of the sample were never heard the term nomophobia. Karl Pearson's coefficient was used to determine the correlation between knowledge and effect of nomophobia, where the obtained r(198) = 0.61 suggested that, inadequate knowledge will lead to increased effect of nomophobia. The Chi-square analysis revealed that knowledge about nomophobia among degree college students were found to be associated with variables viz. age, gender, monthly income, average duration of mobile phone use per day, reaction towards mobile phone damage, number of times one checks the mobile phone per day, awareness about the health hazards of mobile phone and those who carry mobile phone charger with them at 0.05 level of significance, hence, it was inferred that, these personal variables influence the knowledge of degree college students i.e. they had more knowledge about nomophobia. The results also revealed that, there was significant association between the effect of nomophobia and selected personal variables, wherein, it was evident that those who had a family income of less than Rs. 5000 per month, age at which first started to use their own mobile phone between 15 - 18 years and those who check their mobile phone more than 20 times a day had more effect of nomophobia.
Conclusion: Thus, it was concluded that majority (89.5%) of the degree college students had poor knowledge and half (51%) of them had moderate effect of nomophobia. This emphasises the urgent need to sensitize and alert them regarding the ill effects of mobile phone use, which prevents them from further risks of nomophobia.
Keywords
Dependence, Effect, Knowledge, Nomophobia.
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- An Exploratory and Evaluative Study of the Prevalence, Related Knowledge, Attitude and Effectiveness of Awareness Program Regarding Obesity among Students of Selected Degree Colleges in Mysore City
Authors
1 Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, JSS College of Nursing, Mysore, Karnataka, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 5, No 2 (2015), Pagination: 167-171Abstract
Over the decades, the prevalence of obesity among adults and children have increased dramatically and it has now reached at its extreme proportion and stands as a major contributor to the global burden of chronic disease and disability. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of obesity and to examine the impact of an awareness program on knowledge and attitude of college students regarding obesity. The prevalence of obesity was determined among 300 college students. In the study, quasi experimental non equivalent control group pretest posttest design was used and non probability convenience sampling technique was adopted to select 90 samples, 45 each in experimental and control group. Anthropometric measurements i.e. the height, weight, waist circumference and hip circumference of the college students were measured by using standardized weighing machine and measuring tape. Structured knowledge questionnaire and structured attitude scale was used to assess the knowledge and attitude of college students regarding obesity. An awareness program was conducted for the experimental group. The analysis of the findings revealed that the overall prevalence of overweight and obesity was found to be 20.00% and 4.77% respectively which puts young females at high risk and claims prior attention. The pretest findings showed that most of the college students had poor knowledge and favourable attitude towards obesity. The awareness program was effective in increasing the knowledge and changing the attitude of college students regarding obesity as the computed 't' (t44=19.32) value was found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. It was also clear from the findings of the study that there was no significant relation between the knowledge and attitude of college students regarding obesity. There was no association between the pretest level of knowledge of college students with their selected personal variables except for type of family, occupation of parents, childhood eating habits and family history of obesity. None of the personal variables showed significant association with the pretest attitude scores except routine aerobic physical activity. It was concluded that, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing in an alarming rate among college going students and awareness program was effective in enhancing the knowledge and promoting a positive attitude towards obesity among college students. Therefore the study recommends that, it is the need of this hour to organize health campaigns and awareness programs to sensitize young adults to enhance the knowledge and attitude on healthy food habits, healthy lifestyles and a physically active daily routine thereby enabling them to be a healthy citizenry.Keywords
Obesity, Prevalence, College Students.- A study to Assess the Effectiveness of Banana Leaf Dressing (BLD) among Patients with Partial Thickness Burns in Selected Hospitals at Karnataka
Authors
1 Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, JSS College of Nursing, Mysore, Karnataka, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 4, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 15-19Abstract
Burn injuries rank among the most severe types of injuries suffered by human beings with an attendant high mortality and morbidity rate. Majority of the burns patients experience pain and discomfort and many types of burn wound dressings are very difficult to remove and its removal may cause re-injury of the wound which results in pain and delayed wound healing. The present study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of Banana Leaf Dressing (BLD) in terms of reduction in discomfort, decrease in pain and easy removability of BLD among patients with partial thickness burns. A quasi experimental non-equivalent control group pre test and post test design was selected for the present study. Forty four patients with partial thickness burns (22 each in both experimental and control group) were selected by adopting non probability purposive sampling technique. The findings revealed that the post test discomfort and pain scores were significantly lower than the pre test discomfort and pain scores at before dressing, during dressing and 20min after dressing which was tested by using repeated measures of ANOVA and Bonferroni correction which were significant at 0.05 level of significance. The significance of difference between the mean post test discomfort scores at before dressing, during dressing and 20min after dressing of experimental and control group which were statistically tested by using independent 't' test was not found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. The majority of the burns patients who underwent Banana Leaf Dressing experienced easy removal of BLD in all days.
Thus it is concluded that Banana Leaf Dressing is effective in terms of reduction in discomfort, decrease in pain and easy removability among patients with partial thickness burns.
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Banana Leaf Dressing, Discomfort, Pain, Removability and Patients with Partial Thickness Burns.- A Study to Assess the Lifestyle Associated Risk Factors for Selected Non Communicable Diseases and to Determine the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Health Promotive Behaviors among Adolescents in the Selected PU Colleges of Mysore
Authors
1 JSS College of Nursing, Mysore, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 4, No 2 (2014), Pagination: 182-186Abstract
Background: Non-communicable diseases and their associated risk factors have emerged rapidly and are becoming a major public health challenge worldwide. Prevalence of risk factors for non communicable diseases in childhood and adolescence bears significant tendency towards the development of disease in adulthood.
Aim: The aim of the study is to assess the lifestyle associated risk factors for selected non communicable diseases and to determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on health promotive behaviors among adolescents in the selected PU colleges of Mysore.
Methods: Research design adopted for the study was exploratory survey in phase I and quasi experimental, non equivalent control group, pre test post test design in the phase II. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the adolescents for the study. Structured life style assessment scale was used to collect the data regarding the life style associated risk factors of 200 adolescents. Knowledge of adolescents regarding HPB was assessed using SKQ.
Results: The results of the study revealed that majority of adolescents (61.5%) were having moderate life style associated risk for selected non communicable diseases. Findings also revealed that structured teaching programme regarding health promotive behaviors was an effective strategy to increase the knowledge of adolescents as indicated by the computed 't' value which was statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance (t(78)=13.252; p<0.05). Study findings also revealed that adolescents from higher socioeconomic classes with good parental education had better knowledge regarding health promotive behaviours.
Conclusion: Structured teaching programme was effective in increasing the knowledge of adolescents regarding health promotive behaviours and the study finding stresses the increasing responsibility of health professionals in planning and implementing various educational strategies to improve the knowledge of adolescents.