Arul Shiney, T (2011) A Comparative Study to Assess the Perception of Wellbeing among the Elderly Couples in Rural and Urban areas of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu. Masters thesis, Christian College of Nursing, Neyyoor.
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Abstract
A comparative study to assess the perception of wellbeing of elderly couples in rural and urban areas of Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu was conducted, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Science in Nursing at Christian College Of Nursing, Neyyoor, which is affiliated to The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai during the year 2011. OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the perception of wellbeing of elderly couples in the rural areas. 2. To assess the perception of wellbeing of elderly couples in the urban areas. 3. To compare the perception of wellbeing of elderly couples in the rural and urban areas. 4. To determine the association between the perception of wellbeing and the demographic variables such as age, education, type of family and monthly family income and number of living children. HYPOTHESES: H1- There will be significant association between the perception of wellbeing among the rural and urban elderly couples and the type of family. H2- There will be significant differences in the perception of wellbeing among the rural and urban elderly couples. The entire hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study was based on Rosenstock’s Health Belief Model (1975). The design adopted for this study was Descriptive design to assess the perception of wellbeing among rural and urban elderly couples. In this study non probability convenience sampling technique was used. The study was conducted in the 2 urban areas namely Nagercoil, Kottaram town panchayats and in the 2 rural areas namely Karumbatoor, Kanniakulam village panchayats of Kanyakumari District. The tool used for this study was Modified Wellbeing Assessment Scale. The content validity of the tool was established by seven clinical and nursing experts. Pilot study was conducted to find out the feasibility of the study. The tool was administered to the subjects and the data obtained were analyzed in terms of both descriptive and inferential statistics. SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS OF THE STUDY: Assessment of Perception of wellbeing of rural elderly couples: Among the 30 elderly couples, 27 (90%) couples had perceived good wellbeing and the remaining 2 (6.7%) and 1 (3.3%) couples had perceived fair and poor wellbeing respectively. Assessment of Perception of wellbeing of urban elderly couples: Among the 30 elderly couples, 2 (6.7%) couples had perceived best wellbeing and 15 (50%) couples had perceived good wellbeing. The remaining 11 (36.6%) and 2 (6.7%) couples had perceived fair and poor wellbeing respectively. Comparison of perception of wellbeing of rural and urban elderly couples: The perception in all the domains of wellbeing except the social wellbeing had no significant difference between the rural and urban elderly couples. The rural couples’ mean perception of wellbeing was 285.9 ± 38.1 and the same of their urban counter parts was 264.0 ± 59.8. The difference was not statistically significant (P > 0.05). Association of perception of wellbeing of rural and urban elderly couples with the demographic variables: There was significant association between the perception of wellbeing of rural and urban elderly couples with the educational status, family income and number of living children. But there was no significant association between the perception of wellbeing of rural and urban elderly couples with the mean age and type of family. CONCLUSION: 1. There was no significant difference in the perception of wellbeing between the rural and urban elderly couples. But the perception of social wellbeing of rural elderly couples was significantly greater than the perception of social wellbeing of urban elderly couples. 2. There was significant association between the perception of wellbeing of rural and urban elderly couples with the educational status and family income. There was significant association between the perception of wellbeing of urban elderly couples with their number of living children. 3. There was no significant association between the perception of wellbeing of rural and urban elderly couples with their mean age and type of family. There was no significant association between the perception of wellbeing of rural elderly couples with their number of living children.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Perception of Wellbeing, Elderly Couples, Rural and Urban areas, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Psychiatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2020 16:27 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2020 14:33 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/13091 |
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