Background: Adolescent reproductive health is one of the component of the reproductive health. It is most important issue in the world. Reproductive capability is taking place at an earlier age and adolescents are indulging in risk taking behaviors day by day. The objective of this study is to assess knowledge regarding sexual and reproductive health among adolescents. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Kathmandu valley to assess the knowledge regarding sexual and reproductive health among adolescents. Total of 200 respondents were selected through non-probability purposive sampling technique. Self-administered written questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics such as Chi-square test. Results: The findings revealed that most of the respondents had knowledge regarding transmission and protection of HIV/AIDS and STIs but still some respondents had misconception regarding it. The statistical analysis revealed that the total mean knowledge score with standard deviation was 45.02±8.674. Nearly half of the respondents (49.5%) had moderate level of knowledge, followed by inadequate level of knowledge 29.5% and adequate level of knowledge 21.0% regarding sexual and reproductive health. There was statistically significant association of level of knowledge with area of residence (p-value 0.002). Conclusion: Nearly half of the respondents possess some knowledge about sexual and reproductive health but still effective educational intervention is required to increase their knowledge.
Problem Based Learning (PBL) has been implemented in medical and nursing education programs to facilitate students’ deep learning. These two educational programs have some disciplines in common, but they have distinct educational outcomes. For these common disciplines to be congruent with the educational outcome, their respective curricula describe differences in their understanding level. Since the PBL case constructs largely determine the achievement of curricular objectives, they warrant a distinct approach while preparing a PBL case. Both the programs use clinical context for constructing PBL cases to deliver basic science content, but the focus needs to be turned towards their required clinical expertise. While PBL cases need to prioritize the diagnosis and treatment of the disease along with patient care for medical undergraduates, nursing undergraduates require focus on providing holistic nursing care, supporting and helping the patient during illness. This enables the understanding of basic science content comprehensively as applicable to their clinical practice.
Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus mainly present with fever, dry cough, fatigue, myalgia, and dyspnea. This study was aimed to identify the knowledge and attitude toward COVID-19 among nursing students. Method: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted to find out knowledge and attitude toward COVID-19 among nursing students of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur. Online Google form was used for data collection. The SPSS 16 version was used to analyze. Result: Out of 382 nursing students, the majority knew COVID-19, with 84.54% correct responses (6,782 out of a total 8,022). A favorable attitude toward COVID-19 was found in 209 (54.7%). There was a positive correlation between student's knowledge and attitude (r =0.10, p=0.04) and no significant association between demographic variables and attitude. Conclusion: Most (84.54%) of the nursing students surveyed knew COVID- 19 and more than half of them had a favorable attitude toward COVID.
Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. In Nepal, it is the second most common cancer. Early detection of breast cancer serves a leading role in the reduction of breast cancer mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the awareness, attitude and practices regarding breast cancer screening among community women Method: A cross sectional descriptive study was carried among 316 community women. Probability simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Data analysis was done by using SPSS version 16. Result: Our results indicated that very few (7.3%) participants had good knowledge towards breast cancer screening. Half (50%) had poor attitude. Sixty two percent of participants had done breast self-examination, one fourth (25%) had done clinical breast examination and very low (10%) had done mammogram. Though very few participants demonstrated good knowledge, about 90% of participants were aware that lump in breast can be related to breast cancer and agreed that every woman is risk for breast cancer. Conclusion: Majority of women demonstrated poor knowledge, attitude and practice towards breast cancer screening. Thus, effort should be put forth to increase the awareness of breast cancer screening for the early detection of breast cancer in the early stage. Key words: attitude, awareness, practice, breast cancer screening, community women.
Background: The corneal blindness is the 4th most common cause of blindness all over the world lot of people were waiting for the corneal transplantation but there are only few donors. Availability of potential donors and attitude of eligible donors is the main factor that affects corneal supply. Method: A descriptive cross sectional research design was carried out among 205 students with the mean age of 22.7 years using self-administered online questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the analysis of the data. P value was set at 0.05. Result: It has been found that only 4% of the respondents had good knowledge regarding eye donation and more than 50% had moderate knowledge and about 40% had poor knowledge however 90% know that eye can be donated any age above one year. However, regarding attitude, about 70% had good attitude. But still 35% respondents had uncertain about willing to donate eyes after death. Regarding association, only source of information, had significant association with knowledge regarding eye donation. Other variables had no significant association. Conclusion: Based on the results of this study it has been concluded that most of the respondents had poor knowledge regarding eye donation. However, higher percentage of the respondents had good attitude. Information received from different source had significant association towards knowledge on eye donation but it seemed that though they received information from the media they could not answer correctly. It suggests that there is a need of community awareness program from health professionals. Key words: Attitude, Eye Donation, Knowledge, Students.
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