Quality of Life of Infertile Women Attending Infertility Clinic Skims, Soura

Insha Nazir — 2024-12-31

Background: Infertility affects millions of people of reproductive age
worldwide, and it has an impact on their families and communities. The
absolute number of couples affected by infertility increased from 42.0
million in 1990 to 48.5 million in 2010. Disrupting fertility ultimately
leads to stress for the woman. We conducted the study to assess the
quality of life of infertile women.

Methodology: A quantitative research approach with descriptive de-
sign was used to select 80 infertile women through non-probability

convenient sampling. Assessment of Quality of Life was done by using
self-structured interview schedule and FertiQol. Setting of the study
was Infertility Clinic, SKIMS, Soura.
Results: The findings of the present study revealed that higher number
of respondents (60%) had low QoL, whereas 26.3% had good QoL and
minimum number of respondents 13.8% had better QoL. The mean
score of fertiQoL domains which was the most affected with lowest
score were emotional domain (32.9± 18.1) and mind body domain
(35.8 ± 16.6) compared to relational, social domain (68.2 ± 10.0 and
42.1 ± 12.6) Enviroment (62.4 ± 10.1) and Tolerability (64.1 ± 16.5)
respectively. There is a significant relationship between respondents’
quality of life scores and socio-demographic and clinical variables for
age, place of residence, duration of marriage, duration of childlessness,
and infertility treatment initiation (p-value = 0.05).

Conclusion: All infertile women experienced a reduction in their Qual-
ity of Life. The maximum number of respondents had a low quality

of life due to trauma from childlessness, emotional instability, stress,

and an inability to cope with the condition. The emotional and mind-
body domains were the most affected across all domains, suggesting

a need for significant improvement in specific counselling modalities
to enhance treatment.

How to cite this article:
Nazir I, Kachroo M, Annu S, Bashir N, Sharma
N, Ismail S, Hijazi R, Hamid H, Falak N, Farooq
S, Wani J, Jaileel A. Quality of Life of Infertile
Women Attending Infertility Clinic Skims, Soura.
Ind J Holist Nurs. 2024;15(3):1-8.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2348.2133.202401

Knowledge and attitude of adolescent students regarding voluntary blood donation: Impact of an awareness programme (J& K, India)

Huzafa Hamid — 2024-12-31

Background: Every year Millions of people rely on the generosity of another person to receive blood due to various health care reasons like road traffic accidents, surgeries, uncontrolled bleeding and some disease conditions like sickle cell anaemia. The need for blood and blood products is rising in all parts of the world. Availability of safe blood and blood products is a critical aspect in improving the general health care of the population. The study was aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude of adolescent Students regarding Voluntary blood donation so that awareness programme could be administered to make adolescents Students aware about it.

Methodology: A Pre experimental one group pre-test post-test design was used on 60 adolescent students, who were selected by using purposive sampling technique at Boys Higher Secondary School Soura, Srinagar. A self-structured questionnaire and 3- Point Likert scale was administered to study subjects to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding voluntary blood donation.

Results: On pertest, majority of the study subjects (88.3%) had inadequate knowledge, whereas only 11.7% had moderately adequate knowledge and none of the study subjects had adequate knowledge. On post-test majority (91.7%) of the study subjects had adequate knowledge, 8.3% had moderately adequate knowledge and none of the study subjects had inadequate knowledge towards voluntary blood donation. On pertest, majority of the study subjects (88.3%) had negative attitude, whereas only 11.7% had neutral attitude and none of the study subjects had positive attitude. On post-test majority (78.3%) of the study subjects had positive attitude, 21.7% had neutral attitude and none of the study subjects had negative attitude towards voluntary blood donation.

Conclusion- The findings of the study concluded that on pre-test adolescent students had inadequate knowledge and negative attitude regarding voluntary blood donation. It may be due to lack of exposure and education. On Post –test all the adolescent students had adequate knowledge and improved attitude regarding voluntary blood donation. Thus, intervention was effective.

How to cite this article:
Hamid H, Akhter A, Annu S, Kachroo M, Sharma
N, Nazir I, Farooq S, Wani J A, Falak N, Jaileel
B, Ismail S, Hijazi R, Nazir N. Knowledge and
Attitude of Adolescent Students Regarding
Voluntary Blood Donation: Impact of An
Awareness Programme (J& K, India). Ind J Holist
Nurs. 2024;15(3):9-17.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2348.2133.202405

Indian Journal of Holistic Nursing (ISSN: 2348-2133)

Quality of Life of Infertile Women Attending Infertility Clinic Skims, Soura

Knowledge and attitude of adolescent students regarding voluntary blood donation: Impact of an awareness programme (J& K, India)