Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research

A. Savitha ¹, M. Nalini ¹, Roopalatha Shetty ¹, G. Aruni ¹, P. Sukesh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Mental Health Nursing, NUINS, Nitte University, Mangaluru, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Abstract: children's are the gift of god; as indian society concerned that children depict the innocence of god. Around 27 million children are born in a year. Out of which two million of them do not live up to the age of five in india1. Child abuse is a terrible thing and most people are not aware about the child abuse. According to the world health organization (who), one in every four girls and one in every seven boys in the world are sexually abused. Objectives of the study : to assess the level of awareness about child abuse among care givers and teachers in selected rural schools at Mangalore. To find the association between awareness about child abuse with selected demographic variables. Methods : a descriptive survey design was adapted for this study. Forty four teachers and forty four caregivers were selected by means of purposive sampling method. Demographic Performa and awareness questionnaire were used to collect the data from the subjects. The participants were asked to fill the demographic Performa and then proceed to awareness questionnaire. Results : data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study findings revealed that the out of forty four caregivers 2.3% (n=1) had poor awareness, 61.4% (n=27) had average awareness and 36.4% (n=16) had good awareness about child abuse. Out of forty four teachers 59% (n=26) had average awareness and 41% (n= 18) had good awareness and none of them had poor awareness about child abuse. Conclusion : forty four teachers and forty four caregivers had been assessed for their level of awareness about child abuse of these most of them had average [teachers = 26 (59.1%), caregivers = 27 (61.4%)] and good awareness [teachers = 18 (40.9%), caregivers = 16(36.4%)]. There was an association between awareness (caregivers) and education status at 5% level of significance

Keywords

Child Abuse, Awareness, Caregivers, Teachers, Information Booklet.

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Melbin K. Joy ¹, M. Nalini ²

Affiliations
1 K.S. Hegde Charitable Hospital, Mangalore, IN
2 Department of Mental Health Nursing, Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, Nitte University, Mangalore, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a somatoform disorder with a preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance. The present study assessed the occurrence of BDD among the nursing students of selected nursing college in Mangalore, India. A descriptive research design was used. The rating scale modification of BDD-Y-BOCS was used to collect the data from the 500 samples. The average score above 2.0 was the criteria to assess the occurrence of BDD. More subjects were of the age group 20-22 years (49.2%) and more subjects were girls (91.6%). Majority of the subjects were Christians (78.8%) and majority of them were single (98.2%). Most of them belongs to nuclear family (87.6%) with majority (28%) have 3000-5000 rupees monthly income. Major number (45.8%) of the subjects were living in semi-urban area. According to the Rating scale modification of BDD-Y-BOCS, occurrence of BDD is 3.6%. Their major area of concern was hair (54.8%). There was significant association between BDD and total family income when there was no significant association between age, gender, marital status, religion, type of family, area of living, year of the course, and Body mass index.

Keywords

Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Occurrence, Nursing Students, Nursing Colleges.

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