Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

A study to Assess the knowledge and Attitude Regarding Organ Donation among Undergraduate Students Studying in a Selected Arts and Science College, at Guntur

  • Author:
  • K. Lalitha, R. Pushpamala, M. Bramaramba
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 195 to 202

Lalitha College of Nursing, Guntur (A.P)

Abstract

To assess the knowledge of students regarding the organ donation

To assess the attitude towards organ donation in adolescents

To assess the existing level of knowledge and attitude of organ donation among adolescents

To determine the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on the knowledge and attitude of organ donation among adolescents

To find the association between post test knowledge scores with their selected demographic variables

Assess: It refers to estimate the quality of attitude and knowledge of adolescents in selected Arts and Science Colleges.

Knowledge: It refers to the ideas expressed by the adolescents related to organ donation among undergraduate students.

Attitude: It refers to feelings expressed by the adolescents related to organ donation among undergraduate students.

Adolescents: In this study the term adolescence refers to the college students who are in the first year degree class.

Effectiveness: It refers to desired changes brought about the structured teaching programme on the knowledge and attitude of adolescents regarding organ donation in selected colleges.

Structured Teaching Program: It refers system of planned instruction desired to impart information in order to gain knowledge regarding organ donation of adolescents in selected Arts and Science Colleges.

Organ Donation: It refers to removal of specific tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting them into other persons.