TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CHANGES IN GERIATRIC AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN SELECTED AREA OF WARDHA DISTRICT.

Ms. Jaya Vijayrao Khandar

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CHANGES IN GERIATRIC AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN SELECTED AREA OF WARDHA DISTRICT.

Ms. Jaya Vijayrao Khandar

Abstract :

Background: The elderly population is large in general and growing due to advancement of health care education. These people are faced with numerous physical, psychological and social role changes that challenge their sense of self and capacity to live happily. Many people experience loneliness and depression in old age, either as a result of living alone or due to lack of close family ties and reduced connections with their culture of origin, which results in an inability to actively participate in the community activities. With advancing age, it is inevitable that people lose connection with their friendship networks and that they find it more difficult to initiate new friendships and to belong to new networks. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationships among depression, loneliness and sociability in elderly people. Method: tool –structure knowledge questionnaire Likert type attitude scale. Design –Non experimental descriptive study. Sample size –100.adolecsents. Research approach – Descriptive survey approach sampling technique –Non probability convenience sampling setting – selected area of Wardha district. Result: The study shows that 8% of the adolescents had poor level of knowledge score, 32% had average and 60% had good level of knowledge score. The minimum score was 5 and the maximum score was 15, the mean score for the adolescents was 10.87 � 3.07 with a mean percentage score of 54.35 � 15.36. The study shows that 35% of the adolescents had good level of attitude score and 65% had excellent level of attitude. The minimum attitude score was 52 and the maximum score was 84, the mean attitude score for the adolescents was 64.35 � 6.56 with a mean percentage score of 80.43 � 8.20. Conclusion: the study was conducted among the adolescents in order to assess their knowledge and attitude regarding emotional and social change in geriatric. After the completion of the study it is revealed that majority of the undergraduate students has good level of knowledge and excellent level of attitude regarding emotional and social changes in geriatric.