Community and Public Health Nursing

Introduction: Oral cancer is 1/10 mainly widespread cancers in the world. Its high frequency in Central and South East Asian countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, has been well documented.2 It is estimated that during the year 2008 about 2.6 lac new cases and 1.27 deaths occurred worldwide, with a mortality 1.9 per lac population. Burden of oral cancer in India, 20/1,00,000 population are pretentious by oral cancer which is about 30% of all types of cancer. Over 5 people in India die every hour every day because of oral cancer and the same number of people dies from cancer in oropharynx and hypo pharynx.1 Cancer listing is not necessary in India, so the true incidence and mortality may be higher, as many cases are unrecorded and loses follow up. None of the national registry provides cancer incidence or mortality data for India.4 Objectives: (1) To assess the Pre-test and post-test knowledge mean of nursing students regarding prevention of oral cancer at selected Institute. (2) To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching regarding prevention of oral cancer at selected Institute. (3) To find out the association between pre test knowledge mean of nursing students with selected sociodemographic variables of nursing students. Results: The results of the study indicates that structured teaching programme was effective in this study for improving the knowledge of the nursing students. The result obtained for posttest mean and standard deviation more over the ‘Z’ value obtained was found to be significant at 0.05 level thus it can be concluded that structured teaching programme was effective in increasing the level of knowledge regarding prevention of oral cancer. The mean percentage difference was 24.45% thus the hypothesis is accepted. Another finding of study was that there is an association between knowledge level of nursing students with their selected sociodemographic variables undergoing structured teaching programme at significant 0.05 level so the hypothesis is accepted. Conclusion: Prevention is better than care. As statical data shows that it is a global burden in India to prevention our population for oral cancer that is the highest rate of cancer in India. As nursing students are the health care provider so education is important to pathway of prevention

This Pre-Experimental approach was used with one group pre-test and post-test design. The Investigator used convenient Sampling technique for selecting the 50 samples. In the view of the nature of the problem and the accomplishment of the objectives of the study, a planned teaching Programme regarding Vaccine Preventable Diseases was prepared for the samples. A Structured Knowledge Questionnaire and Likert’s attitude rating scale were prepared to assess the knowledge and the attitude of the Samples. Validity and Reliability was done before data collection. Descriptive and Inferential statistics was used to analyze the data. The data demonstrated there was significant increase in the knowledge and attitude of mothers of under five-year children after the administration of the structured teaching Programme regarding Vaccine Preventable Diseases. Hence it is concluded that planned teaching Programme was effective in improving knowledge and attitude of the mothers of under five year children at selected rural area of Anand District. Thus out of 50 respondents under study, Age group of 20-24 years (30%), Religion Muslim (38%), Type of family of Joint family (52%), Education Status of Graduate (40%), Family Income above 15001/- of (40%), Source of Knowledge from other factors (36%), No of under five children is 4>= (40%), Age of child average of 3 to 5 (42%). The mean pre test knowledge score was 15.98 and the mean post test knowledge score was 20.38.The mean pre test attitude score was 53.88 and the mean post test attitude score was 75.7. and Significance of the difference between pre test and post test knowledge, attitude and practice was statistically tested using paired ‘t’ test and it was found significant at 0.05 level of significance. Thus rejecting the null hypotheses and accepting the research Hypotheses. The Correlation was found moderately positive correlation. And also found the significant association of post test knowledge and attitude score. There was proved that the Structured teaching Programme was effective in improving the knowledge and attitude of the mother of under five year children at selected Primary Health Center of Anand District.

Immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions to prevent the disease and improve life expectancy. The objective of the study was to assess the post-test knowledge score regarding the revised national immunization schedule among selected students. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. The research Approach was usedas a qualitative research approach and Research Design experimental design. The conceptual framework used for the present study is “Modified general system model”. Total sample size was 30 and selected by purposive sampling technique. Inclusion criteria: (1) Third year basic BSC nursing students in selected nursing college. (2) Third year basic BSC nursing students who are willing to participate in the study. (3) Student who knows English. Based on the objectives and the hypothesis the data were analyzed by using various statistical tests i.e. frequencies, percentage, mean, chi-square and standard deviations test. Data analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The‘t’value obtained was 8.04 which accepted the research hypothesis suggesting that the structured teaching was effective in increasing the knowledge of nursing students on the national immunization schedule. The finding of the study showed that the mean pretest score was 13.6 with a standard deviation of 7.91, whereas in the posttest the mean score was 20.46, with a standard deviation of 3.329, The calculated “t” value was 8.04 found to be a significant at the level of p<0.05. It showed that the calculated “t” value was much higher than the tabulated “t” value and there was a significant improvement in the knowledge regarding the national immunization schedule among the nursing students. Hence the H1 is accepted

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal disorder common among women of reproductive age. Women with PCOS may have infrequent or prolong menstrual period or excess male hormone (androgen) level objectives of the study was to assess the post-test knowledge scores regarding polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) among the nursing students The study was conducted at Asharam college of nursing, kamptee road, Nagpur. Data was collected using structured questionnaire. Research Approach was usedas qualitative research approach and Research Designwas pre-experimental one group pre-test design. The conceptual framework used for the present study is “general system theory”. Total sample size was 30 and selected by convenient sampling technique. Inclusion criteria: (1) The girls those who are 17 to 28 years. (2) The girls those who are willing to participate. (3) The girls those who are available at the time of data collection. (4) The girls those who can understand English. Based on the objectives and the hypothesis the data were analyzed and by using various statistical tests i.e. frequencies, percentage, mean, chi square and standard deviations‘t’ test. Data analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The‘t’value obtained was 12.09 which accepted the research hypothesis suggesting that the structured teaching was effective in increasing the knowledge of nursing students on polycystic ovarian syndrome. The finding of the study showed that, the mean pretest score was 19.8 with a standard deviation of 3.62, whereas in the post-test the mean score was 25.3, with a standard deviation of 2.86, and the mean difference between pretest and the post-test score was 0.76 The calculated “t” value was 12.09 found to be significant at the level of p<0.05. It showed that the calculated “t” value was much higher than the tabulated “t” value and there was a significant improvement in the knowledge regarding study-related polycystic ovarian syndrome among the nursing students. Hence the H1 is accepted

Background: Cervix cancer remains the number one cancer death for women in developing countries including India. However, the incidence of cancer cervix has declined steadily over the years, which is possible through improving the knowledge among women. Aim: To assess the effectiveness of video-assisted teaching on knowledge regarding cancer cervix among women. Material and Method: A true-experimental study was conducted among 60 women (30- experimental & 30 control) selected by using simple random sampling. Results: The study results showed that 56.67% of women had moderately adequate knowledge in the post-test and 40% of women had adequate knowledge. The calculated ‘t’ value was 19.92 (p<0.001) which showed a statistically significant difference in the level of knowledge among women between the experimental and control groups.