Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part C (2023)

Background of the study: COVID-19 is a disease important in public health globally. Pneumonia like disease emerges in Wuhan, China in November 2019, which the World Health Organization later called coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID–19 (WHO, 2020) [1].

Aim: The study aimed to assess effectiveness of motivational program regarding care of COVID–19 patients among final year nursing students.

Materials and Methods: The study adopted a pre-experimental one group pre-test–post-test design 80 final year nursing students of Hayat Institute of Nursing Education Guwahati, Assam were recruited as a sample of the study using Non probability purposive sampling technique. Demographic Performa, Structured 5-point Likert Scale on level of motivation regarding care of COVID-19 patients and Structured 7- point Likert Scale on attitude regarding care of COVID-19 patients.

Result: The findings of the study reveal that majority (68.8%) of the final year students belonged to age group of >25 years. Most of the final year nursing students (91.3%) were female. Equal (50%) are perusing B.Sc. Nursing and GNM nursing course. Majority (42.50%) of the final year nursing students belongs to Islam Majority (55.0%) of the final year nursing students reside in rural Majority (43.75%) of the final year nursing student’s source of information is through media. Most of the final year nursing students (81.3%) did not get infected with COVID-19. Most of the final year nursing student’s family member (70.0%) did not have COVID-19 infection Majority (65.0%) of the final year nursing students had experienced of staying in quarantine. Almost all (96.0%) of the final year nursing students had experienced of RAT all (100.0%) of the final year nursing students had experience of RTCPR. Almost all (95.0%) of the final year nursing students were vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccine. Majority (52.5%) of the final year nursing students have moderate level of motivation regarding care of COVID-19 patients before administration of motivational program. The mean of occurrence of change in attitude after administration motivational program regarding care of COVID-19 patients were reduced from 70.28 to 60.5.

Conclusion: The study concludes that motivational program was effective regarding care of COVID-19 patients among final year nursing students.