Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

A descriptive study conducted to assess the quality of sleep and level of stress among 100 nurses engaged in shift duties in selected hospitals of Pune city by using questionnaires Demographic data, Pittsburgh sleep quality index, Nursing stress scale Proportionate stratified random sampling techniques is used.

Result: 51% of poor and 49% of good quality of sleep, 46% of severe, 40% of moderate, 8% of very severe and 6% of mild level of stress, and also correlation seen that the nurses having more stress are prone to have poor quality of sleep. Demographic variables marital status, were found to have significant association with quality of sleep and level of stress, number of children and salary were found to have significant association with quality of sleep, Work experience and Working hours in a day/night were found to have significant association with level of stress.it is suggested that nurses having stress are prone to have poor quality of sleep.

Background: Today technology covers all work sectors through out the world, including health sector. E-Health is a broad term, defined by WHO as the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for health. It may involve communication between healthcare providers forsuch activities as online referrals, electronic prescribing and sharing of electronic health records. It can also provide access to information database, knowledge resources and decision support tool to guide service delivery. E-Health has the potential to not only improve health, but also decrease healthcare costs, enhance scientific understanding of health issues, increasing equity of healthcare and improve communication between and amongst healthcare providers. In a more philosophical sense it has been suggested E-Health is ‘a commitment for networked, global thinking, to improve healthcare locally, globally and worldwide by using information and communication technology.

Problem Statement: A Descriptive study to assess attitude regarding E-Health among B.Sc. Nursing 1st Year students of Selected College of Nursing, Amritsar, Punjab.

Objectives: 1. To assess attitude regarding E-Health among B.Sc.Nursing 1st year students.

2. To as certain association of attitude regarding E-Health among B.Sc. Nursing 1st year students with selected socio-demographic variables.

Material and Method: A descriptive study was conducted to assess the attitude regarding E-Health among 65 B.Sc nursing 1st year students, who were selected by using convenient sampling technique. The knowledge regarding E-Health was assessed using attitude scale. Results: Results revealed that all (100%) the students had positive regarding E-Health.

Conclusion: The result of the studydemonstrates that all of the students had positive attitude regarding E-Health.
 

The study aimed to assess the knowledge of Nursing students before administering a structured teaching program on the prevention of Hepatitis-B and to Administer a structured steaching program on the prevention of Hepatitis-B.

In this study, a descriptive research approach was used with, one group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental research design. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the participants (n=60). A self-structured questionnaire was administered as a tool and the collected data was analyzed. The study result has shown that among 60 students, in the pretest knowledge score, 12 (20%) were having in adequate knowledge, 43 (71.7%) were having moderate knowledge, and only 5 (8.3%) students were having adequate knowledge. Where as in post-test majority i.e. 38 (63.4%) were having adequate knowledge, 20 (33.3%) were having moderate and only 2 (3.3%) students were having inadequate knowledge. This indicates that the post-test knowledge score is greater than the pre-test knowledge score Hence the difference between the pre-test and post-test overall knowledge score was 57.46%. So the results of the study show the difference between the pre-test and post-test knowledge scores of the students regarding the prevention of Hepatitis-B.

The research approach used in this study is quantitative approach. Their research design adopted for the study was quasi experimental non equivalent control group design Setting of the study was Rathna institute of mental health & Rammental hospital. The sample size was 60, in which 30 belongs to experimental and 30 belongs to control group. Samples were recognized based on the inclusion criteria and selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique.
 

The objective of the study is to compare the assessment of the myths, beliefs and perceptions about mental disorder in general population among urban areas. The conceptual framework used in this study was based on Rosenstock’s and Becker’s health Belief Model (1974). The study was used non-experimental descriptive and comparative study design. The sample comprised of general population Bhadhva Tarhar (Rural area) 300 + Pantnagar (Urban area) 300). NonProbability convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample. Data was collected using Sociodemographic variables and likert Scale to assess the Myths, belief and perception among general population. The result presented that there was a significant difference in the rural and urban mean score and the findings were statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance. In rural 45.3% had bad level, 37.7% had poor level and 17.0% had good level of myths, beliefs and perceptions about mental disorder, where as in urban 18.3% of the samples had bad level, 48.7% showed poor and 33.0% of the samples remained with good level of myths, beliefs and perceptions about mental disorder. The investigator is grateful for the experience gained through this study.