Problems and Compliance on Online Education among Nursing Students

Abstract

A descriptive study was conducted to assess the problems and compliance on online education among
nursing students, KIMS nursing college Thiruvananthapuram. The objectives of the study were to find
out the problems of online education, to assess the compliance of online education, to find out the
association between problems and compliance of online education and selected sociopersonal variables.
The sample size consists of 110 nursing students. The study used a purposive sampling technique
through a structured questionnaire consisting of 3 sections; section A consist of Sociopersonal variable
such as age, year of study, gender, monthly income, area of residence, and gadgets used for online
learning; section B is a structured questionnaire of 10 multiple choice questions on problems of online
education; Section C consists of 15 “Yes /No” question on compliance of online education. Data was
collected and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The selected socio-personal variables
in the study include age, gender, year of study, income, area of residence, gadgets used for learning.
The result show that 58.181% participants faced network, electricity, recharge issues, 56.36% spend 5-7
hours for an average online section, 57.27% felt that online education was good, 70% partially completed
the class syllabus, 64.545% reported too much content, 49.090% preferred whatsApp,.30.90% felt a
sense of isolation, 53.62% had partially affordable economic burden,76.3% experienced headache, eye
strain and backache,52.73% doesn’t get enough time to engage in physical activity and about 40.90 %
had average compliance, 33.63% good and 25.45% had poor compliance.
The study showed that there is a significant association between compliance on online education and
age (P<0.05). There is no significant association between compliance on online education and gender,
year of study, income, area of residence and gadget used.