INTRODUCTION:

The ongoing novel corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic emerged from China in 2019.¹ the pandemic has caused a lot of economic and education instability throughout the world.² According to UNESCO monitoring, 191 countries implemented national wide closures as well as local closure, impacting about 98.4% of the world’s student population. School and college closure may have impact on the students, teachers, and families, economic and social consequences³.

NEED FOR THE STUDY:

The COVID pandemic has caused negative consequences on student’s academic study, including learning interruptions , disruption to assessment, and the impact is more severe on student’s from disadvantage backgrounds.⁴ The nationwide closure of educational institutions (i.e.) school, colleges, and universities has adversely impacted over 60% of the world’s student population.⁵ Therefore; this study focused on assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on academic performance among the Nursing students.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:

A study to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the academic performance among the nursing students.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

· To assess the impact of COVID - 19 pandemic on academic performance among B. Sc (N) students.

· To associate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on academic performance among B. Sc (N) students with their selected demographic variables.

HYPOTHESIS:

H_1;There is significant association between impact of COVID-19 pandemic on academic performance among B. Sc (N) students with their selected demographic variables.

Operational Definition:

Assess:

In this study, assess refers to evaluating the systemic collection of information known by nursing students on impact of COVID-19 pandemic on academic performance among nursing students by selected tools.

Impact:

In this study, impact refers to marked significant effect on academic performance due to covid-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Pandemic:

In this study, COVID-19 pandemic refers to an acute respiratory illness in humans caused by corona virus.

Academic performance:

In this study, Academic performance is refers to the students performance in the academic activities on both theory and clinical aspect.

Nursing students:

In this study, nursing students refers to the students those who are studying 3^rd year

B.Sc Nursing program at selected nursing college, Salem.

ASSUMPTION:

COVID-19 pandemic may impact on academic performance of nursing students.

DELIMITATION

This study is limited to 3^rd year B. Sc (N) students at selected nursing college, Salem.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE:

Kennedy Mwila et al. (2021) conducted a cross sectional study on impact of COVID-19 on academic activities of final year nursing students quantitative methods using a structured questionnaire among 196 final year students. Data were analysed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 21. The study concluded that most students strongly agreed that COVID-19 caused failure to complete course content (32.7%) concept poorly taught (1.3%) delayed their examinations (86.1%) and prevented students from doing their clinical attachments (51.5%).⁶

Elaine written berg et al. (2021) conducted a qualitative study on covid-19 transformed nursing education and communication competency. B.Sc (N) students 197 members were selected as sample from four University campuses in the Pacific mid south regions of the United States. The study concluded that significant statistical difference was found across variable of communication, attitude, knowledge and skill across both modules.^7.

Kebenesa Angasu et al. (2021) conducted a study on covid-19’s negative impacts on clinical learning and proposed compensation mechanisms among under graduate Midwifery and Nursing students of Jimma University. The study was conducted among 147 midwifery and nursing students of Jimma University using cross sectional study design. The respondents were selected by simple random sampling method. Data were collected by using a self administered questionnaire and analysed descriptively. The study concludes that three fifth 88 (59.9%) of the study participants perceived high negative impacts of covid-19 on their recent clinical learning.⁸

METHODOLOGY:

Research approach:

Quantitative research design.

Research Design:

Descriptive research design.

Research Variables:

Dependent variable - Academic Performance

Independent variable - Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic.

Setting of the study:

Kamala college of Nursing, Salem.

Population:

Target Population: B. Sc (N) students at selected nursing college, Salem.

Accessible population: B. Sc (N) 3^rd year students at selected nursing college, Salem.

Sample:

B. Sc (N) 3^rdyear students at selected nursing college, those who fulfills the inclusion criteria.

Sample size:

The sample size consist of 37 nursing students.

Sampling techniques:

Non probability consecutive sampling technique.

Inclusion criteria:

B. Sc (N) 3^rdyear students those who are available at the time of data collection.

Tools:

Section: A – Demographic variables

Section: B – Structured questionnaire and checklist.

Scorings:

Structured Questionnaire

Level of Impact	Score	Percentage (%)
Less impact	0-9	(0-24)
More Impact	10-18	(27-49)

Checklist

Level of Impact	Score	Percentage (%)
Less Impact	1-9	(3-24)
More Impact	10-17	(27-46)

Data Analysis:

Table: 1 Frequency and percentage distribution of nursing students according to their demographic variables.

S. No	Demographic Variables	Options	Frequency	Percentage (%)
01.	Age (years)	Below 20	19	51
01.	Age (years)	20-22	18	49
02.	Gender	Male	13	35
02.	Gender	Female	24	65
03.	Family Income (₹)	Below 10,000	15	41
		10,000-25,000	22	59
		Above 25,000	0	0
04.	Order of Birth	First Child	19	51
		Second Child	15	41
		Third Child	3	8
		Others	0	0
05.	Previous Medium of Education	Tamil	25	68
05.	Previous Medium of Education	English	12	32
06.	Residency	Day Scholar	24	65
06.	Residency	Hostel	13	35
07.	Previous University exam mark	>80%	2	5
		60-80%	30	81
		<60%	5	14

Structured Questionnaire:

Table: 2 Frequency and Percentage distribution of impact of covid-19 pandemic on academic performance of nursing students based on the structured questionnaire.

S. No	Level of Impact	Frequency	Percentage (%)
01.	Less Impact (0-9)	16	43%
02.	More Impact (10-18)	21	57%

Checklist:

Table: 3 Frequency and Percentage distribution of impact of covid-19 pandemic on academic performance of nursing students based on the checklist.

S. No	Level of Impact	Frequency	Percentage (%)
01.	Less Impact (1-9)	15	41%
02.	More Impact (10-17)	22	59%

Structured Questionnaire:

Table: 4 Association between impact of covid-19 pandemic on the academic performance of nursing students and selected demographic variables. *(NS-Non Significant)

S. No	Demographic variables	Less impact	More impact	Chi square	P valve
01.	Age (years)			1.99 (NS)	0.15
	a)Below 20	10	9
	b)20-22	5	12
02.	Gender			1.24 (NS)	0.26
	a)Male	7	6
	b)Female	8	15
03.	Family income (₹)			2.82 (NS)	0.24
	a)Below 10,000	4	11
	b)10,000-25,000	12	10
	c)Above 25,000	0	0
04.	Order of Birth			3.03 (NS)	0.38
	a)First child	10	9
	b)Second child	6	9
	c)Third child	0	3
	d)Other	0	0
05.	Previous Medium of Education			1.64 (NS)	0.19
	a)Tamil	9	16
	b)English	7	5
06.	Residency			0.18 (NS)	0.66
	a)day scholar	11	13
	b)Hostel	5	8
07.	Previous University Exam Mark (%)			3.72 (NS)	0.15
	a)>80	2	0
	b)60-80	13	17
	c)<60	1	4

Checklist:

Table: 5 Association between impact of covid-19 pandemic on the academic performance of nursing students and selected demographic variables.

S. No	Demographic variable	Less Impact	More Impact	Chi Square	P value
01.	Age (years)			2.36 (NS)	0.123
	a)Below 20	10	9
	b)20-22	5	13
02.	Gender			1.47 (NS)	0.22
	a) Male	7	6
	b) Female	8	16
03.	Family Income (₹)			0.03 (NS)	0.99
	a) below 10,000	6	9
	b)10,000-25,000	9	13
	c)above 25,000	0	0
04.	Order of Child			7.39 (NS)	0.06
	a)First Child	9	10
	b)Second Child	3	12
	c)Third Child	3	0
	d)Other	0	0
05.	Previous Medium of Education			0.65 (NS)	0.41
	a)Tamil	9	16
	b)English	6	6
06.	Residency			0.03 (NS)	0.84
	a)Days scholar	10	14
	b) Hostel	5	8
07.	Previous University Exam Mark (%)			4.78 (NS)	0.09
	a)>80%	0	2
	b)60-80%	11	19
	c)<60%	4	1
*(NS-Non Significant)

DISCUSSION:

Structured Questionnaire:

The major findings of this study is majority 21(57%) samples had more impact on academic performance due to COVID-19 pandemic and 16(43%) samples has less impact on academic performance due to COVID-19 and Chi square analysis reveals there is no significant association between impact of COVID-19 on academic performance of B.Sc(N) students with their selected demographic variables.

Checklist:

The major findings of this study is majority 22(59%) samples had more impact on academic performance due to COVID-19 pandemic and 15(41%) samples had less impact on academic performance due to COVID-19 and Chi Square analysis reveals there is no significant association between impact of COVID-19 on academic performance of B.Sc(N) students with their selected demographic variables.

CONCLUSION:

This study concludes that majority of the B.Sc(N) students were had more impact on academic performance due to COVID-19 and there is no significant association between impact of COVID-19 on academic performance of B.Sc(N) students with their selected demographic variables.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

· This study can be conducted with larger sample size among B. Sc (N) students.

· Experimental study can be conducted to assess the effectiveness of direct classes versus online classes.

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Received on 06.05.2022 Modified on 21.05.2022

Int. J. of Advances in Nur. Management. 2022; 10(3):201-204.

DOI: 10.52711/2454-2652.2022.00049