Abstract

Research comprises Creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications. It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliché, it's the key to victory over fear and its cousin, depression. Objectives: To assess attitude towards nursing research among nursing students in selected colleges and to find out the association between the attitude towards nursing research among nursing students with selected demographic variables. Methodology: A quantitative non experimental descriptive exploratory method was adopted for the present study. Study conducted on nursing students of College of nursing. The study samples are final year nursing students. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used. In this study attitude towards nursing research divided into 3 categories that is Positive attitude (28-40), Neutral attitude (14-27), Negative attitude (0-13) and findings shows that 73% students have positive attitude (28-40), 27% of students have neutral attitude (14-27) and 0% of students have negative attitude (0-13), towards nursing research.

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