The study aimed to assess the male nurses’ attitude as a nursing professional, and attitude of female colleagues towards male nurses. A cross sectional survey of Nurses (including both male and female nurses) was done in a 1500-bedded teaching hospital in North India. Male and female nurses who have at least 2 years of working experience in nursing were recruited. The total participants were 69 male nurses selected by simple random sampling and 132 female nurses selected by convenience sampling. A self-developed 5-point Likert scale was used to assess attitude of male nurses towards nursing profession, which had 16 items and 12 items for the female nurses’ attitude towards male nurses. The attitude towards nursing was overwhelmingly positive with 70 percent (male nurses) and 67.4 percent (female nurses working with male colleague) of them having “positive” attitude, 25 percent (male nurses) and 22.7 percent (female nurses working with male colleague) having “very positive” attitude. None of them had a negative attitude towards the profession. Chi square test showed no significant association. To conclude, male nurses are comfortable in the profession and have a healthy attitude towards their profession. Majority of the female nurse colleagues were comfortable working with the male nurses and most of them believed that men in nursing have brought a positive change in the profession.
Children aged between 10 and 19 years constitute 22.8% of the population (243 million) approximately in India.One in 10 students (10.0%) had
ever used tobacco in any form. Proportion of students currently using any tobacco product was 4.5% (boys: 5.5%; girls: 3.1%). Tobacco use among
adolescent has reached to pandemic levels. Adolescents should be protected against initiation of any tobacco products. They can be taught refusal
skill (How to say NO) on tobacco use to prevent from using tobacco. Once adolescents start using tobacco in childhood, they continue to use
tobacco at adulthood also. The aim of the study wasto assess effectiveness of standardised teaching programme on knowledge and attitude on
Prevention of Tobacco Use for Adolescents at selected schools of Delhi, India. In this study Two group pre-test and post-test design with quasi
experimental approach was used. 200 adolescents, 100 each in intervention and control group were enrolled using simple random sampling. Data
was collected through online and physical mode using structured Knowledge questionnaire and attitude Likert scale. 45-minute standardised
teaching programme was administered to adolescents. Result showed that majority of adolescents were in aged group of 14 yrs with Mean ±SD
13.6±0.586. Pre-test Mean knowledge score of intervention group was 17.52±7.21 and post test score was 34.13±5.07 which shows signicant
difference at (t=-18.848, p<0.001). There was signicant difference between Mean pre-test attitude score6.68±1.7048 and 15.91 ±3.5988 at posttest with (t=--23.1780, p<0.001). The study concluded that Advocacy skill Building programme was effective in increasing knowledge and attitude
of adolescents regarding prevention of tobacco use. Giving information and training is the key to prevent initiation of tobacco use among
adolescents.
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