Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2019

EFFECTIVENESS OF NON–CONVENTIONAL ATTIRE ON ANXIETY LEVEL AMONG CHILDREN

Ms. Leena Lokhande, Ms. Janaki Shinde

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Non–conventional nurse’s uniforms in pediatric settings may contribute to lowering children’s distrust towards health care providers and reduce anxiety. Children may fear nurses weå white uniforms. Most of the nurses white uniforms are associated with anxiety. The use of non–conventional nurse’s attire can contribute to improve the child – nurse relation which has the potential to ease the discomfort experienced by children due to hospitalization. The research approach adopted for study was evaluative survey approach, research design was Quasi experimental, Non– equivalent control group, post –test only design. By using non –probability purposive sampling technique 60 children were selected for the study. Modified Faces Child Anxiety scale was used to identify anxiety perception among children. The calculated unpaired ‘t’ value (tcal. = 3.86) is greater than the tabulated‘t’ value (ttab. = 2). Therefore it can be interfered that Non–conventional attire is effective in reducing anxiety levelduring non–invasive procedure among children. The calculated chi square values were higher than tabulated values at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study revealed that there was significant association between posttest anxiety scores and selected socio–demographic variables. i.e Age in years [χ2cal= 22.44, χ2tab=12.59], No of siblings [χ2cal= 20.54, χ2tab=12.59], and history of previous hospitalization [χ2cal= 6.75, χ2tab=4.99]. The present study revealed that majority of subjects in experimental group 17(56.67%) had moderate anxiety and 3 (10.00%) showed mild anxiety whereas in control group majority of subjects 22 (73.33%) had severe anxiety and only 1 (12.5%) had moderate anxiety. therefore it was concluded that Non–conventional attire of pediatric nurses helped to decrease anxiety among children during non invasive procedure.

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EFFECTIVENESS OF NON-CONVENTIONAL ATTIRE ON ANXIETY LEVEL AMONG CHILDREN, Ms. Leena Lokhande, Ms. Janaki Shinde INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2019

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