Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research

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A quasi experimental study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme on prevention of oral cancer among the tobacco chewers in Nagunoor village, Karimnagar.

The population of the study was tobacco chewers at Nagunoor village, Karimnagar. The sample size was 50, selected by non-probability convenient sampling technique. A questionnaire and video assisted teaching programme was prepared to assess the knowledge of the tobacco chewers on prevention of oral cancer. Before and after the video assisted teaching programme through pretest and posttest respectively. Data collection was done with the help of structured questionnaire using interview technique. Fifty tobacco chewers were assisted regarding knowledge on prevention of oral cancer in pretest 80% of tobacco chewers had average knowledge and none of the tobacco chewers had above average knowledge. In post test 52% of tobacco chewers had average knowledge and none of the tobacco chewers had below average knowledge. Comparative analysis showed that the mean of knowledge score during the pretest was 19.26 whereas during post test was 25.62. This difference of knowledge score was found to be statistically significant. The 't' value obtained was 10.2, hence it was shown that the video assisted teaching programme improved the knowledge of tobacco chewers on prevention of oral cancer.

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A Non-experimental descriptive study was undertaken to assess the burden, social support and family wellbeing among caregivers of mentally ill patients at Institute of Mental health at Erragadda, Hyderabad. The conceptual framework adopted for the study was modified Penders' Health Promotion Model. It was modified to suit the purpose of the present study. The study was conducted at Institute of Mental Health at Erragadda, Hyderabad. The Sample for present study were 60 caregivers of Mentally ill patients. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used, and a structured interview schedule was prepared to assess the burden, social support and family wellbeing among caregivers of mentally ill patients. The tool was given for content validity to the experts in the field of Psychiatry, Psychiatric nursing, Psychology and Psychiatric social worker. The reliability of the tool was tested by Spearman-Brown Split-Half method. It revealed that tool was reliable and the 'r' value was 0.6 for caregivers' burden, 0.8 for Social support and 0.7 for Family wellbeing. Pilot study was conducted at Asha hospital, Hyderabad on the subjects and tool was found feasible and the main study was conducted in Institute of Mental Health, Erragadda, Hyderabad.

Major findings of the study were 97 percent of caregivers of mentally ill patients had moderate burden, 5 percent had severe burden and 3 percent had mild burden. Regarding the social support 25 percent of caregivers had low social support, 42 percent of moderate social support and 33 percent of high social support. In response to family wellbeing, 25 percent of caregivers had low family wellbeing, 53 percent of moderate family wellbeing and 22 percent of high family wellbeing. The association between demographic variables and burden was found that a significant association between selected demographic variable such as occupation and relationship with care receiver with their burden scores at 0.05 level and there is no association between other demographic variables such as age, gender, education, religion, marital status, family income, family history of psychiatric illness and earlier experience of caring with their burden levels of caregivers of mentally ill patients.

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Introduction: Nursing by itself is very stressful and nurses themselves are subject to stress from the demands of their career and need to know healthy ways of responding to maintain a person's physical, emotional, and social well-being. Stress has an implication not only on the health and personal life but also on the job satisfaction and the quality of care rendered to the patients.

Objective: This study was carried out to assess the stress and job satisfaction among staff nurses working in selected hospitals, Malappuram district, Kerala.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 90 staff nurses from two hospitals (45 staff nurses each from a private and government hospital). The hospitals were chosen by simple random method and the study subjects were chosen by purposive sampling method. Data were collected using a checklist that consists of items to assess the stress and job satisfaction.

Findings: Majority 61% were females, 59% were married, 48% were Muslims, and 70% were appointed on a permanent basis in job and 50% each in private and government sector. There is a significant difference in stress and job satisfaction based on the religion of the staff nurses. There is no significant difference in stress among the staff nurses working in private and government hospital, whereas there is a significant difference in the job satisfaction among the staff nurses in the two sectors. There is a high negative correlation between job stress and job satisfaction and it is significant at 0.01 level.

Conclusion: The job stress significantly influences the job satisfaction among the staff nurses albeit there is subjectivity and individual differences in the experience of stress. Identifying stress at the earliest and paying attention to mange and overcome it may have an impact on their personal life and professional outcome in terms of quality of service and patient care.

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