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Nighat Haffiz ¹, Rifat Haffiz ², Manju Chhugani ³, Shakeela Akhtar ¹

Affiliations
1 Government Nursing College, Srinagar, IN
2 SKIMS, Srinagar, IN
3 Rufaida College of Nursing, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, IN

Abstract

To study the prevalence of Cu-T complications among women and their knowledge regarding prevention and management of complications of Cu-T insertion and to determine the relationship between knowledge and the selected factors (age. religion. educational qualification, occupation. type of family, income, number of children, duration of copper-t insertion) and to identify the decision makers in the family in choosing family planning methods 100 rural women attending PHC's of Kashmir were investigated in the present study. It was found that majority of women (90%) were Muslims, most of the of the study subjects (78%) were house wives, more than half (54%) were in the age group of 31-40 years, (45%) belonged to nuclear family, (40%) of women were having two children, (39%) women were in the monthly income group between Rs 10001-15000. (29%) were having 1-2 years of Cu-T insertion, (35%) women had primary education, maximum number of women with Cu- T insertion complications (12%), were having excessive vaginal discharge and minimum number of women (2%), reported nausea and vomiting and only (1%) of women's husband got hurt during sexual intercourse. Maximum subjects (70%) had inadequate knowledge regarding prevention and management of complications of Cu-T insertion. The mean of knowledge score was 20.8 (maximum score 34) and Standard deviation was found to be 6.96 depicting heterogeneity in the knowledge score of study subjects. There was a significant relationship between knowledge and educational but there was no significant relationship between knowledge and factors like age, religion, occupation, type of family, income, number of children, duration of Cu-T insertion at 0.05 levels. Regarding the decision makers in the family in choosing family planning methods, most of women, (45%) were dominated by husbands. The study findings indicate that there is lack of knowledge among women regarding prevention and management of complications of Cu- insertion and hence there is need to educate and to give information to women regarding prevention and management of complications of Cu- insertion.

Keywords

Cu-T Complications, Family Planning, Descision Makers, Knowkledge, Kashmir.

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Rifat Haffiz ¹, Nighat Haffiz Reshi ², Shugufta Maqbool ¹

Affiliations
1 Sher-E-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science, Srinagar, IN
2 Government College of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences, Srinagar, IS

Abstract

A study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of an information booklet on knowledge and attitude of staff nurses regarding their legal responsibilities in a selected Hospital of J&K Srinagar, Major findings of the study with regard to demographic variables revealed that majority (74%) of the staff nurses belonged to the age group of 30-40 years, with regard to professional education, 46%&44% of the staff nurses were having Postbasic BSc. nursing and GNM respectively, majority (88%) had a working experience of 10-15 years.,(80%) had not attended any in-service education programme. Regarding the mean pre-test knowledge score it was found to be 21.16 with a median 21.00 and S.D 4.032 against the maximum score of 39. The mean post test knowledge score was found to be 34.48 with a median of 35 and S.D.3.56 against a maximum score of 39. Mean post test knowledge scores (34.48) of staff nurses was found to be significantly higher than their mean pre-test knowledge scores (21.16) , as evident from the 't' value of 16.12 suggesting that the knowledge of staff nurses on legal responsibilities increased after administering the information booklet. The mean pre test attitude score was found to be 150.44.with a median 155 and SD 14.465 against the maximum score 210.The mean post-test attitude score was found to be 186 with a median of 184 and SD 13.464 against a maximum score of 210.Mean post-test attitude scores 186 of staff nurses were found to be significantly higher than their mean pre-test attitude scores 150.44 as evident from the 't' value of 12.858 was significant., suggesting the effectiveness of booklet in adopting the positive attitude by staff nurses' on legal responsibilities. There was a significant relationship between post-test knowledge and post-test attitude scores of the staff nurses. On the basis of the findings of the study, it is recommended that similar study can be replicated on larger samples of staff nurses of different hospitals for generalization of the findings.

Keywords

Legal Issues, Pre-Test, Post-Test, Information Booklet, Staff Nurses.

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