INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2455-2631 | Impact factor: 8.15 | ESTD Year: 2016
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The Primary objective of the study
1. To assess knowledge regarding Organ Donation 2. To assess the attitudes regarding organ donation Secondary objective 1. To find out the association between knowledge, attitude and demographic variables. The present study, the concept from pender’s health promotion model is utilize were the student modifying factors which include Age, Sex, Academic Year, Living community, type of family, religion and residential place. The focus of the model is to explain the factors that influences the student regarding organ donation. The second factor of model focus on cognitive factor like Knowledge regarding organ donation that include General Meaning, Needs, Importance of organ donation, Policies and Awareness programme. A Descriptive research approach and Cross sectional research design was used. The sample size was 100 junior college student. Convenient Sampling technique method used. Questioners regarding information about organ donation was to using to assess the knowledge level of the student regarding organ donation and attitude scale was used to assess the attitude towards the organ donation of the student. To find out the study findings mean and standard deviation used for assessing the knowledge level and ‘chi square’ test used for association between knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation with demographic variable. With the help of above finding it is concluded 52 student have average level of knowledge and there was also no association found between knowledge and demographic variables. There was positive attitude regarding organ donation among participant and there was an association found between attitude score and Age, Residential place, Religion and Parent education.
Keywords:
organ donation, junior college student, knowledge , attitude
Cite Article:
"A descriptive study on the knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation among the junior college students in selected city", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijsdr.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.239 - 243, January-2021, Available :http://www.ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR2101037.pdf
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Publication Details:
Published Paper ID: IJSDR2101037
Registration ID:192881
Published In: Volume 6 Issue 1, January-2021
DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
Page No: 239 - 243
Publisher: IJSDR | www.ijsdr.org
ISSN Number: 2455-2631
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