A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL HEALTH OF NURSING STUDENTS AMONG GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE INSTITUTION
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Mental Health, Nursing Students, Government Institute, Private InstituteAbstract
The present study is been conducted to assess the mental health of nursing students among government and private institution. For this purpose, a sample of 60 subjects- 30 nursing students from government institute and 30 nursing students from private institute and all the subjects involve in the study were boys and girls age from 17-20 years, the mental health battery administered on all subjects individually. The data analyzed after individual scoring of each answer sheet according to manual of the test. After scoring mean, SD & ‘t’ value of test calculated to determine the significance of mean differences between 30 nursing students from government institute and 30 nursing students from private institute. The independent variable is nursing students of (government and private institute) and the dependent variable is mental health status of the subjects. The ‘t’ value found were found non-significant at level of mental health status of nursing students among government and private institution, which means that there is no difference on the level on mental health status of nursing students among government and private institution. But on the gender basis boys nursing students of government and private institute, The ‘t’ value were found significant on level of mental health status, which means that there is difference on level of mental health status of boys nursing students among government and private institution. The level of mental health status of boys from government institute is more as compared to boys from private nursing institute. The reasons behind these results may be factors affecting mental health status namely self-esteem, confidence, family break up or loss, difficult behavior and abuse.
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