A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRANAYAMA ON ACADEMIC STRESS AMONG 1ST   YEAR B.SC. (NURSING) STUDENTS AT SELECTED COLLEGES IN NELLORE, ANDHRAPRADESH"
Creators: name: T. Lalitha Kumari
name: Dr. Manonmani
name: P. Prasanthi
name: Aruna Kumari. V
name: Pratiima. V
name: Dr. Suresh Chide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Assess, Knowledge, Maternal and Child Health Scheme, I Year B.Sc. (N) Students.

description: Abstract 

Stress from many sources has been reported for some time by student nurse .The sources are like academic source, parental expectation, and competition for grade, relationship and career choice. Academic sources of stress like examination, long hours of study, assignments and grades, lack of free time, and lack of timely feedback after their performance, special elements of academic program like arrangement and conduction of workshops, also produce stress among student nurses. And also clinical sources of stress like while taking care of critically ill patients, interpersonal conflict with peer group, fear related to complete their clinical requirements, prolonged standing and performing catheterization, have also been associated with high level of stress Nursing students have the same academic as other college students such as midterm and final examinations, research paper and other assignments. In additional, however nursing students also experience a clinical component which is highly stressful. Student often perform procedures that can cause serious harm to their patients and fear making a mistake. Students may face hostility or rejection from patients and their families. Additionally, students are in continuous contact with faculty and often believe that every task or interaction is being evaluated. Need for study: It is obvious that stress is present among nursing students. Excessive stress can be harmful to student's academic performance. Additionally students who perceive their stress level as very high often will become depressed.  Researchers at all India institute of medical sciences (2002) in New Delhi have discovered a clear link between rhythmic breathing process and a state of relaxed alertness and recommended the practice of Pranayama for breathing stress. Lindop (1999) identified conflict between the ideal and real clinical practice was also a source of stress. He also found that time management problems. When trying to complete nursing tasks added to a student's perception of stress.  Stress is very common for the nursing students. Many relaxation techniques help to reduce the stress. Pranayama is one among the relaxation techniques. So the investigator felt the need for Pranayama to reduce stress among nursing students. Objectives: To assess the level of stress among 1st year nursing students selected college, To evaluate the effectiveness of Pranayama on stress, among I year nursing students, To associated the level of stress among 1st  year nursing students with their selected socio demographic variables Material and methods: The data collection procedure carried out after obtaining Permission from the Institutional Ethics Committee, principal, Sree Narayana Nursing College, Nellore. Investigators visit each participant and introduced her and explained the nature and purpose of the study. Confidentiality of the information will be assured by taking informed consent from the participants 100 participants will be selected by using non probability convenience sampling technique who fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The data collected by administering the two parts of the tool. The investigator distributed the tool for filling the socio demographic data and the structured questionnaire which consists of various items related to among Dr.NTRUHS B.Sc. (N) students. Data collection procedure:  The data collection procedure was done for a period of 1 week. After obtaining the permission, data collection will started. 40 samples would selected by using non probability convenience sampling technique. Dr.NTRUHS B.Sc. (N) students who fulfill the inclusion criteria would selected and the confidentiality of shared information will assured structured questionnaire will adopt to collect the data, questionnaire will be given to I year B.Sc. (N) students and give 30 minutes to complete the Result: The data was analyzed by the frequency and percentage as per shown that  Dr.NTRUHS B.Sc. (N) students were having Discusses the level of stress on effectiveness on Pranayama on academic stress among I year nursing students, at Moderate 19(19%) and Severe 81(81%).  Mean and standard deviation, the mean value (pre test) is 59.49 and standard deviation is 7.71 (post test) mean value is 83.22 and standard deviation is 11.37. Conclusion: Pranayama technique is an effective intervention to reduce academic stress.