HEALTH PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS DUE TO ONLINE NURSING EDUCATION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC OF SELECTED NURSING COLLEGES, BHOPAL

Author Name: 1. Prof. Umesh Kumar Sharma 2. Prof. (Dr.) Mrs. Karesh Prasad

Volume/Issue: 03/01

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/07.2022-71233296/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. PhD Scholar, L N Nursing College, LNCT University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
2. Principal and Guide, L N Nursing College, LNCT University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh India

ABSTRACT

In India during Pandemic crisis, health sciences education has become a challenge for teachers, UGC, governing council, stakeholders. So it became a need to reframe the traditional education system by adopting online education to continue and maintain uninterrupted curriculum learning activities. The government of India on march 24th 2020 announced lockdown and suspended all face to face classes in all the sectors of education system to prevent the spread of corona virus covid 19 infection between teachers and students and in hospital areas between nursing students and patients. The sudden change to online education didn’t give any chance to teachers and students regarding proper planning for online classes. This continuous exposure to mobile screen, less gap between online classes, poor ergonomics, resulted into many health problems like headache, back pain, eye strain and psychological problems among undergraduate nursing students. This study has the aim to identify the health problems encountered by undergraduate nursing students due to online learning in nursing education during covid-19 pandemic of selected nursing colleges of Bhopal A Quantitative approach and descriptive research design was used to assess health problems due to online learning among undergraduate nursing students. A self structured google online questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was analyzed through SPSS 20. The Cronbach’s Alpha value was 0.88. Data analysis done using frequency, percentage distribution and chi square test. The finding of present study are the significant association between Headache , Eye problem), disturbed sleep , back pain ,pain in joints , between Age and Eye problem, Body ache Headache ,back pain , Body ache, disturbed sleep, pain in joints, Lack of concentration with age and residence of the undergraduate nursing students. And there was no significant association found between type of the college and religion. The study has concluded that the undergraduate nursing students has faced many health problems during attending online education during covid-19 pandemic in lockdown .The factors found were long duration of online class ,less resting gap between two online classes and the frequency of the online classes and continuing eyes on the learning device

Key words: Health Problems, Undergraduate Nursing Students, Online Learning.