A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Mindfulness Techniques on Level of Test Anxiety among the B.Sc Nursing Students in Selected College at Chennai
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TREND IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 7 (1):
886-888 (February 2023)Abstract
Anxiety is the emotional response to that events. Anxiety also serves an important protective function. It signals that something is wrong so that we can move out of a potentially dangerous situation. We can retrain our thinking to better cope with significantly reduce test anxiety. A study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of mindfulness techniques on test anxiety among B.Sc N students in selected college at Chennai. The objective of the study is to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness techniques among the B.Sc N students. The hypothesis formulated was there is significant association between the mindfulness techniques on the level of test anxiety among B.Sc N students. The review of literature included the related studies which provide a strong foundation for the study including the basis for conceptual framework and formation of tool. The research design used for this study was pre experimental one group pre test post test design. It was carried out with 30 samples who fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Purposive sampling techniques was used to select the samples. An interview schedule was used to assess the pre test and post test level of test anxiety. A integrated mindfulness techniques was given for students for the duration of 30 40 minutes, a standardized tool was given to the students for duration of 10 to 15 minutes. The post test was conducted at the end of the 7th day by using same tool. The analysis revealed that the pre test level of test anxiety mean score was 34.0 with standard deviation 4.40 and post test level of test anxiety mean score was 22.3 with standard deviation 2.85. The paired ‘t’ value was 12.96 which showed highly significant at p 0.001 level. Thus it indicates the effectiveness of mindfulness on level of test anxiety among B.Sc N students. So the null hypothesis was rejected and researcher hypothesis was accepted for this study. Mrs. Bharathi. P | Dr. Tamilarasi. B Ä Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Mindfulness Techniques on Level of Test Anxiety among the B.Sc (Nursing) Students in Selected College at Chennai" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-1 , February 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52790.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/52790/a-study-to-assess-the-effectiveness-of-mindfulness-techniques-on-level-of-test-anxiety-among-the-bsc-nursing-students-in-selected-college-at-chennai/mrs-bharathi-p