Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research

Nisha Walia ¹, P. Vadivukkarasi Ramanadin ², Kiran ³

Affiliations
1 Mata Sahib Kaur College of Nursing, Mohali, Punjab, IN
2 Dept. of OBG (N)., Mata Sahib Kaur College of Nursing, Mohali, Punjab, IN
3 Dept. of OBG (N), Mata Sahib Kaur College of Nursing, Mohali, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Becoming a mother is an important stage in every woman's life. First time mothers in particular may feel anxious about how they are going to cope with themselves. With this aim the researcher made an attempt to assess and correlated the knowledge and anxiety on labour process. A quantitative research approach with descriptive design was adopted. The sample consists of 100 primigravida by purposive sampling technique. Structured interview schedule was used to collect the data from primigravida. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Study findings shows that the majority of the primigravida i.e. 43% belongs to the age group of less than 23 years, 33% of the primigravida were studied till metric class, majority (81%) of primigravida were house wives, 53% of primigravida were from the families having monthly income of less than Rs.10,000/-, 52% of primigravida were housewives, majority (59%) of the primigravida were from nuclear family and 41% of primigravida gained knowledge on labour from their family. It also shows that 53% of the primigravida had good level of knowledge, followed by 30% of them had average level of knowledge, 11% had excellent level of knowledge and only 6% of them had low level of knowledge. The study findings show that there is an association between the level of knowledge and education, occupation and source of information.

Keywords

Primigravida, Labour Process, Structured Interview Schedule, Structured Knowledge Questionnaire, Purposive Sampling Technique.

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P. Vadivukkarasi Ramanadin ¹, G. Muthamilselvi ², Manjeet Kaur ³

Affiliations
1 Dept. of OBG., Mata Sahib Kaur College of Nursing, Mohali, Punjab, IN
2 Vinayaka Mission’s College of Nursing, Pudhucherry, IN
3 Mata Sahib Kaur College of Nursing, Mohali, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Nursing is professional caring. Though we are in technology world many of the Hospital follows the most of the traditional method of nursing care which has got lot of paper work than the client care. This trend has to be changed. Hence this study is focusing on assessment and comparison of Nurses attitude towards computer application in nursing practice by a standardized tool P.A.T.C.H (Pretest for Attitudes Toward Computers in Healthcare). Quantitative approach with descriptive research design was used for the study. Staff Nurses working in Private Hospital and Government Hospital were selected by using convenient sampling technique. Total sample size is forty. Prochaska Diclemente's Stage of Change Model theory was applied for the present study. Both descriptive and inferential technique was used for the study. Study findings shows, according to P.A.T.C.H. Scale Private Staff Nurses had 5% of the limited awareness, 40% of them had realistic view, 50% of them had enthusiastic view and 5% of them had idealistic view about computer application in nursing practice. Government Staff Nurses had 35% realistic view, 55% of them had enthusiastic view and 10% of them had idealistic view. Among the Private staff Nurses 59% of them had positive attitude, 20% of them had negative attitude and 21% of them were expressed that no opinion. Among the Government Staff Nurses 59.5% of them had positive attitude, 15% of them were had negative attitude and 25.5% of them were expressed as no opinion. Chi square test was used to find out the association between attitude and selected demographic variables at 0.05 level of significance. It shows that there is no association between attitude and age, sex, education, Year of experience, Income, Type of family, religion, marital status and Place of residence. There is association between attitude and Source of information. Overall finding of the study shows that there is no much difference between private and government staff nurses towards computer application in nursing practice. They must be educated regarding current trends and recent advancement by using information technology.

Keywords

P.A.T.C.H (Pretest for Attitudes Toward Computers in Healthcare), Nursing Informatics, Prochaska Diclemente’s Stage of Change Model, Enthusiastic View and Idealistic View.

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P. Vadivukkarasi Ramanadin ¹, Tripal Chaudhari ², Bhavisha Sujeeta ³, Heena Christulas Jyoti ³, Churchlin Sonlin ³, Trupti Najbunnisha ³, Nijin Thomas ³, Lakshmy Chandran ³, Patel Hetal Sejal ³, Sakuntala Susana ³

Affiliations
1 Dept. of OBG(N), Shri Vinoba Bhave College of Nursing, Silvassa, DNH, IN
2 Dept. of Child Health Nursing, SVBCON, Silvassa, DNH, IN
3 SVBCON, Silvassa, DNH, IN

Abstract

Background: Most of the time having a baby is a natural process. A pregnancy is considered high risk when complication occurs to the mother, baby or both. Aim: This study examined the effectiveness of planned teaching programme regarding knowledge on identification of high risk pregnancy among healthcare workers working at periphery level in Daman. Methods and Materials: A pre-experimental one group pre-test and posttest deign was used with convenient sampling technique on 80 samples. Structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge. Result: The pretest level of knowledge on antenatal care among health care workers shows that 60% of them have average, 38.75% them have poor and 1.25% of them have good knowledge. Posttest finding shows that 51.25% of them have average, 47.5% them have good and 1.2% of them have poor knowledge. It shows that pretest mean was 3.762 and posttest mean was 6.575, SD was 2.27, mean difference was 2.8123. Calculated paired t test value [t _{(79, 0.05)} = 10.97 > 2.8123] is higher than the table value, which shows that the planned teaching programme was effective. The association between the level of knowledge and their socio- demographic variables were assessed by chi- square test which shows there is no significant. Conclusion: The overall average mean score indicated that planned teaching programme was effective in increasing knowledge of post test score of healthcare worker regarding identification of high risk pregnancy.

Keywords

Healthcare Workers, Planned Teaching Programme, High Risk Pregnancy, Paired 't’ Test and Chi - Square Test.

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