To Determine the Knowledge and Practice Regarding Health App’ among Student Nurses, Posted at Kashiben Children Hospital, Vadodara
Journal Title: Journal of Nursing Today - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Health apps are those application programs which offer health-related services in terms of diagnosis, treatment, prevention, awareness, dosage etc. for smart phones, tablets and computers, Because they’re accessible to medical and paramedical personnel, patients both at home and on-the-go, health apps are a part of the movement towards mobile health (mHealth) programs in health care. There are many varieties of health apps available from app stores. Some are designed to help consumers, medical personnel to make healthier choices in their everyday life by offering, consuming advice about fitness or nutrition. But still there is not that much awareness among the people about this easy step for initial assessment at their door place. So with this new innovation researchers wanted to conduct this study. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: the aim of this study is to assess the knowledge and practice regarding health app’ among student nurses posted at kashiben children hospital, vadodara. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Descriptive design was adopted with quantitative approach. 100 student nurses posted at kashiben children hospital, Vadodara were selected as sample by convenience sampling technique.The tool consists of three parts. First part consist demographic data of the sample, second part consist of Self Structural Dichotomous questionnaire for knowledge and practice regarding health app’ RESULTS: The collected data was tabulated and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Knowledge Results shows that 7 student nurse (7%) have poor knowledge, 59 student nurse (59%) have average knowledge, 34 student nurse (34%) have good knowledge regarding health applications, where as practice result presents that 18 student nurse (18%) have poor practice, 60 student nurse (60%) have average practice, 22 student nurse (22%) have good practice regarding health applications. Researcher have also found that there is a significant association between Knowledge score and demographic variables such as living area of student nurse, and type of mobile that they are using, at 0.05 level of significance . To find the significant correlation between knowledge and practice score of health application among student nurses karlpearson formula is used The Karl Pearson correlation coefficient score was r= 0.42, which proves that there is a positive significant correlation between knowledge and practice score. CONCLUSION: Majority 59 student nurse (59%) have average knowledge and 60 student nurse (60%) have average practice regarding health app’. Hence it indicated that there is a positive correlation between knowledge and practice score.
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Franny J. Emmanuel, Jayant Doshi, Niyati R. PATEL, Priyanka M. Baranda, Prakruti P. Patel
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