Online ISSN: 2515-8260

EMOTIONAL IMPACT ON PARENTS OF NURSING INTERN STUDENTS DURING CURRENT PANDEMIC: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

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Kshirabdhi Tanaya 1* , Manisha Praharaj

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Background: Nurses acts as a frontline healthcare worker and they are facing substantially higher risk of getting infection and death in result to excessive exposure to corona disease. COVID-19 affects all the citizens miserably throughout the world and created physical as well as social distance among people which causes stress for parents of health workers (nurses) who works as warriors during lockdown due to corona disease. So, Objective of this current study attempted to find out the emotional impact among parents of nursing intern students during the outbreak of corona (COVID-19) pandemic and to find out the association between emotional impact on parents of nursing intern students with selected demographic variables. Materials and Methods: Study was carried out as cross-sectional design through online survey method in India. A total 350 number of parents were participated with the help of internet services and Google forms, whatsapp and other social media data were collected. Purposive sampling technique was used for this study. Inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: This study result revealed that all most half of the parents from total samples were reported a severe emotional impact during lockdown and few parents were reported mild emotional impact and less than half of the parents were reported moderate emotional impact for COVID duty during outbreak of Covid-19. And the socio-demographic variables were statistically significant with emotional impact of parents of nursing intern students.Conclusion: Study concluded that outbreak of Nobel corona virus put moderate to severe emotional impact among parents of nursing intern students though nursing personnel works like warriors in this world.

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