A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Substance Abuse Among B.Sc. Nursing Students

Adolescence is the most important and labile phase of human life cycle. Approximately 18-20 of Indian population constitute of age group between 13-24 years. These futures citizens are at great risk for early initiation to drugs and other psychoactive substances. The present study is an attempt to "Assess the knowledge regarding substance abuse among B.Sc students in DayanandaSagar University, Bangalore."Objectives To assess the level of knowledge regarding substance abuse among BSC Nursing students. To assess the knowledge regarding the ill effects of substance abuse among the study subjects. To determine the association between the knowledge of substance abuse among study subjects with their selected demographic variables. The research approach and research design adopted for the study was descriptive. Simple random sampling was used to select the sample of this study. The sample consists of 40 students, in between age group of 16- 24 years. Data were collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire. The questionnaire had 2 sections. Section 1 comprised of demographic data and section 2 on knowledge aspects of substance abuse. Data collected were analysed by using descriptive statistics. Results of the study revealed that majority of the student that is 52.5 had inadequate knowledge regarding substance abuse. The mean knowledge score was high in 19-21 years age group 50 , females 72.5 , and students residing in paying guest 57.5 , students who got 70 and above last year's percentage 40 . IThe 2 analysis revealed that there was significant relationship between gender, percentage of marks obtained last year, type of family, living of status of parents, monthly pocket money received, educational status of parents, how often do you read literature related to drugs, how often do you listen or watch programmes related to substance abuse. There was no relationship between knowledge and other socio demographics like age, year of study, religion, place of stay and monthly family income. On the basis of study we can draw the following conclusion majority of the student had inadequate knowledge related to substance abuse. The mean knowledge score was high in 19-21 years age group 50 , females 72.5 , and students residing in paying guest 57.5 , students who got 70 and above last year's percentage 40 . Jyoti Laxmi Chetty "A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Substance Abuse Among B.Sc. Nursing Students" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-1 , December 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd19094.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/19094/a-descriptive-study-to-assess-the-knowledge-regarding-substance-abuse-among-bsc-nursing-students/jyoti-laxmi-chetty