A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING OTITIS MEDIA AND ITS MANAGEMENT AMONG G.N.M. IInd YEAR STU

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING

OTITIS MEDIA AND ITS MANAGEMENT AMONG G.N.M. II YEAR STUDENTS IN APEX COLLEGE OF NURSING, AT VARANASI

ABSTRACT

OtitisMediaisaninfectionofthemiddleear OtitisMediaisabuild-upoffluidinthemiddleear,aspacebetweeneardrumandinnerear OtitisMediaismorecommon inyoungchildren.

TheawarenessregardingOtitisMediaisneedfornursingstudentstohelpineducationofcommunitypeople. Adescriptivestudywasconductedwhereinstudentsof age group 18-30 years were selected for the study using random sampling method.Atotal 30 students were included in the study Data were collected by using knowledge questionnaires. The 40% respondent having excellent knowledge, 33.33% of the respondents were having good knowledge, and 26.66 % respondent havingaverageknowledgeregardingotitismedia.Asignificantassociationwasfoundbetweendemographicvariablesandknowledge.

INTRODUCTION:

Otitismediaisashorttermmiddleearinfection.It'scomesuddenlyandalong timeintervalitcomesbackwithlessseveresymptoms.Otitismediaismarkedas apain,feverdizzinessandhearingabnormalities.Astudyin1980-1989theotitis mediaresearchcentreatPittsburghwasexaminedtheprevalenceofbacteria.The cultureatcentrewasshowsthattheStreptococcuspneumoniaaredominatedin acuteotitismediacause,Homophilesinfluenzaalsofoundinmanypatients.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Toassessthelevelofknowledgeinnursingstudentsregardingotitismedia.

2. To find out the association between knowledge of students with selected demographicvariablesregardingotitismedia.

3. There will be significance difference between knowledge of students regardingotitismedia.

RESEARCHMETHODOLOGY:

Researchdesignwasconsistedandescriptiveresearchdesignapproachtoassess theknowledgeregardingotitismediaamongG.N.M.IIndyearstudentsin Apex nursingcollegeatVaranasi.Thepopulationselectedforthestudywas30G.N.M. ndII year students.Thesampleswereselectedbyusingnon-probability,purposive sampling technique. The development of tools involved steps of test constructioni.e.preparingtheblueprint,selectionofitems.Contentvalidityofquestionnaire was done and modifications were done according to the suggestion given by experts. Pre testing and reliability of tools were done.The tools were foundtobereliable.

Thedatawerecollectedbyusingstructuralknowledgequestionnaire.Thestructuralquestionnaireconsistingoftwosections;SectionI:demographicdataand SectionII:consistedof20knowledgequestionnairewithmaximumscoreof20.

RESULT:

Theanalysisofdatawasbasedontheobjectivesandhypothesis.Descriptivestatisticswereusedtomean,frequencyandpercentagewithtabularpresentationof data.

Chisquiretestwasusedtotestthehypothesisandsignificancedifferenceinthe levelofknowledgeofstudentsregardingotitismedia.

Objective1: Among 30 respondents 12 were having excellent knowledge, 10 having good knowledge andremaining8havingaverageknowledge.

Figure1:PiediagramshowingthelevelofknowledgeofG.N.M.II yearstudentsregardingotitismedia

Figure2:Bardiagramshowingthedistributionofmaleandfemale nd respondentsinG.N.M.II yearstudents

DISCUSSION:

Section-I

DemographicVariables:

Ingendercriteria,themajority73%ofthestudyparticipantsweretofemale,and theremaining27%ofmale.

The religious distribution depicts that majority 94% of the study participants wereHindus,4%Muslims,2%Christiansandremaining0%belongedtoother religions.

Inagecriteria,themajority82%ofthestudyparticipantswereto18-22yearsof

KEYWORDS:Study,Knowledge,Student,Assess,OtitisMedia,Management. Copyright©2022,IERJ.Thisopen-accessarticleispublishedunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttribution-NonCommercial4.0InternationalLicensewhichpermitsShare(copyandredistributethematerialinany mediumorformat)andAdapt(remix,transform,andbuilduponthematerial)undertheAttribution-NonCommercialterms.

Ranjana

(ResearchGuide),AssociateProfessorandHODofMedicalSurgicalNursing,ApexCollegeofNursing,Varanasi

agegroup,16%to23-26years,1%to27-30yearsandremaining1%toabove30 years.Thus,thestudyrevealedthatmostoftheparticipantswere18-22yearsof agegroup.

Aspertheeducationaldistributionofthestudyparticipantsonly44%werehavingIntermediateeducation,34%Graduate,1%Post-graduateand21%werehaving other courses. Thus, the study revealed that most of the 44% participants werehavingeducationlevelofIntermediate.

Theinformationsourcedistributiondepictsthat62%ofstudyparticipantsgets information from college teacher, 24% from Internet, 9% from other while remaining5%throughNewspaper Thus,thestudyrevealsthatmajorityofstudy participant'ssourceofinformationisCollegeteacher

Section-II

KnowledgeRegardingOtitisMedia:

Theresultshowsthatmajority33.33%ofthesampleswerehavingGoodknowledge,26.60%Averageknowledgeandremaining40%hadexcellentknowledge regardingotitismedia.

CONCLUSION:

Theresearchershaveconductedastudyonotitismedia.Theresultshowedthat 33.33% were having good knowledge, 40% excellent knowledge and 26.60% averagelevelofknowledgeregardingotitismedia.Thisconcludesthatmoreeducation and awareness is needed among the nursing students regarding otitis media.

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