“A STUDY ON ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING CAUSES

AND EARLY SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN

A SELECTED COMMUNITY AT SHIVDASPURA”

BY

MR. RAVI SHANKAR SOYAL

Dissertation submitted to

RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES

JAIPUR RAJASTHAN

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

IN NURSING

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF

Mr. VAIBHAV JAIN

Assistant Lecturer & HOD
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

JAIPUR COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HOSPITAL

TONK ROAD SHIVDASPURA
DEC-2016

RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCE

JAIPUR RAJASTHAN

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 DECLARATION BY THE CANDIDATE

I MR. RAVI SH. SOYAL hereby declare that this dissertation entitled “A
Study on Assessment of Knowledge Regarding causes and early symptoms of
depression among rural women in a selected community at Shivdaspura” is a
bonafid research work carried out by me under the guidance of Mr. VAIBHAV
JAIN, Reader & HOD of Psychiatric Nursing, JAIPUR COLLEGE OF
NURSING AND HOSPITAL TONK ROAD SHIVDASPURA.

Date: Signature of the candidate

Place: SHIVDASPURA Mr. RAVI SHANKAR SOYAL

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 CERTIFICATE BY THE GUIDE

This is to certify that the dissertation entitled, “A study on the assessment of

knowledge regarding causes and early symptoms of depression among rural
women in a selected community at Shivdaspura” is a bonafied work done by Mr.
RAVI SHANKAR SOYAL in partial fulfillment for the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Nursing.

Date: Signature of the Guide

Place: SHIVDASPURA Mr. VAIBHAV JAIN

Associate Professor
&
HOD Psychiatric nursing

JAIPUR COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HOSPITAL TONK ROAD

SHIVDASPURA JAIPUR

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 ENDORSEMENT BY THE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT,

PRINCIPAL/ HEAD OF THE INSTITUTION

This is to certify that the dissertation entitled “A Study on Assessment of

Knowledge Regarding Causes and Early symptoms of depression among rural
women in a selected community at Shivdaspura” is a bonafide research work
doneby Mr. RAVI SHANKAR SOYAL under the guidance of Mr. VAIBHAV
JAIN, Reader & HOD of Psychiatric Nursing.

Seal & Signature of the Guide Seal & Signature of the Principal
Mr. VAIBHAV JAIN M.Sc (N) Mr. MOHD IMDAD KHAN M.Sc (N)
Assistant Lecturer & HOD Dept. Of Medical Surgical Nursing
Dept. of Psychiatric Nursing

Date: Date:

Place: Shivdaspura Place: Shivdaspura

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 DECLARATION BY THE CANDIDATE

I Mr. RAVI SHANKAR SOYAL, hereby declare that the Rajasthan

University of Health Science Pratap Nagar, Jaipur Rajasthan shall have the right
to preserve, use and disseminate this Dissertation in print or electronic format for
academic and research purpose.

Date: Signature of the candidate

Place: Shivdaspura Mr. RAVI SHANKAR SOYAL

RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCE,

JAIPUR RAJASTHAN

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Writing an acknowledgement is probably the most difficult part of doing a

thesis. Months of hard work, hours of guidance and minutes of enlightenment have
to be compressed in to words that makes for seconds of reading.

I am grateful to God Almighty for his abundant blessings throughout this

study

I am thank the chairperson of JAIPUR COLLEGE OF NURSING AND

HOSPITAL and Secretary Dr. FARIDA. A. BAIG for providing all facilities for the
completion of the study.

I express my profound sense of gratitude to our Principal, Mr. MOHD.

IMDAD KHAN, JAIPUR COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HOSPITAL
SHIVDASPURA for allowing me to do my dissertation on a topic of my choice; his
encouragement has been a source of great inspiration for me in carrying out this
study.

I express my deep sense of gratitude to Prof. IMDAD KHAN, M.Sc. (N.), for his
expert guidance, valuable suggestions, encouragement and keen interest in the
conception, planning and execution of the study.

I express my deep sense of gratitude to our esteemed teacher and research guide Mr.
VAIBHAV JAIN ASSISTANT LECTURER & HOD of Psychiatric Nursing,
JAIPUR COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HOSPITAL, for his unconditional
support, guidance, valuable suggestions, untiring efforts, unwavering faith and
cooperation has continually motivated me for the successful completion of this
dissertation. We have been extremely fortunate to have he as my guide. I am thankful
to his inspiration and hope of humanity.

I wish to express thanks to Mrs. FARIDA .A. BAIG, JAIPUR COLLEGE OF

NURSING AND HOSPITAL, for her suggestions, support throughout the course of
this study.

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It is my pleasure to indebt our sincere gratefulness and genuine thanks to my class
coordinator Mr. VAIBHAV JAIN, JAIPUR COLLEGE OF NURSING AND
HOSPITAL, for his suggestions, and continuous keen interest in my dissertation
work.

I wish to express thanks to Mr. DINESH DHAKAD AND Mr. ASHOK JANGID
JAIPUR COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HOSPITAL, for their suggestions,
support throughout the course of this study.

I extend my sincere thanks to all experts for validating my tools and providing
their valuable suggestions.

I sincerely thank to Prof. Mr. IMDAD KHAN, M.Sc. (N) & Mr. VAIBHAV JAIN
in Bio-Statistics, for guidance in statistical analysis in the study.

I extend my whole hearted thanks to Mr. KAILASH who translated the study tool to
Hindi, English and being my incessant support and inspiration for this effort.

I extend my sincere thanks to Mrs. NISHA CHATURVEDI librarian, JAIPUR

COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HOSPITAL who supported for the successful
completion of this dissertation.

I shall always be grateful to all women of Shivdaspura rural community for their
cooperation in making my study possible.

A special thanks for our friendsand other classmates whose souvenir of prayers,
help, support and suggestions has always been a source of encouragement throughout
my thesis work.

My vocabulary fall short of right words to express my immense debts to my

dear Father Mr. HANSRAJ SOYAL, mother Mrs. PARVESH DEVI, and my
brother Mr. SURESH SOYAL, who are the reason for this hard work and study,
their faith has always given me strength, support, encouragement, and abundant
blessings.

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 It is my privilege to salute our esteemed institution JAIPUR COLLEGE OF
NURSING AND HOSPITAL for grooming us into post graduate nurse. We are
grateful to all of them who have directly or indirectly helped in the completion of the
study.

Date: Signature of the Candidate

Place: Shivdaspura Mr. RAVI SHANKAR SOYAL

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 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED

Sl. No Abbreviation M e a n i n g

1 . N S N o n – s i g n i f i c a n t
2 . S D S t a n d a r d D e v i a t i o n
3 . S S i g n i f i c a n t
4 . W F M H World Federation for Mental Healt h
5 . W H O World Health Organization
6 . D f D e g r e e o f F r e e d o m
7 . < L e s s e r t h a n
8 . % P e r c e n t a g e
9 . X 2 C h i - S q u a r e
1 0 . * S i g n i f i c a n c e
1 1 . ∑ S u m m a t i o n

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 ABSTRACT

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:

“A study on assessment of knowledge regarding causes and early symptoms of

depression among rural women in a selected community at Shivdaspura”.

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:

Depression is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease and affects

people in all communities across the world.

Today, depression is estimated to affect 350 million people. The World Mental
Health Survey conducted in 17 countries found that on average about 1 in 20 people
reported having an episode of depression in the previous year. The life time risk of
depression in males is 8 to 12 percent and in females is 20 to 26 percent. Depression
occurs twice as frequently in women than in men and affecting nearly everyone
through either personal experience or through depression in a family member.

Depression is a mental disorder that is pervasive in the world and affects us all.
Unlike many large scale international problems, a solution for depression is at hand.
Efficacious and cost- effective treatments are available to improve the health and the
lives of the millions of people around the world suffering from depression. On an
individual, community and national level it is time to educate ourselves about
depression and support those who are suffering from this mental disorder.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

1. To study the existing level of knowledge of women in the rural areas on causes and
early symptoms of depression in a selected community at Shivdaspura.

2. To find out the association between the level of knowledge and selected socio
demographic variables regarding causes and early symptoms of depression among
rural women in a selected community at Shivdaspura.

3. To develop an information booklet on causes and early symptoms of depression.

METHODS:

The descriptive survey approach was used to assess the knowledge on causes
and symptoms of depression among women of selected rural community. The
purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from the selected samples. A
self structured questionnaire was used as an instrument for assessing the knowledge
on causes and early symptoms of depression. The reliability of the self structured
questionnaire was 0.8. Since the score is positive; the tool was found to be higher
statistically reliable for the present study.

RESULTS:

Among 100 subjects, 56% had poor knowledge regarding causes and early
symptoms of depression, 31% had good knowledge regarding causes and early
symptoms of depression and remaining 13% had excellent knowledge.

There was a significant relationship between level of knowledge and selected

socio demographic variables such as age, education, occupation, income, information
of depression and source of information received regarding depression. This shows
that these variables had an influence over level of knowledge of the respondents
because the obtained chi-square value is greater than the table value at 0.05 level of
significance and hence hypothesis is rejected.

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INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSION:

The obtained data is analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Karl-
Pearson Correlation Co- efficient test and chi-square test tested at 0.05 level of
significance to find out the association of depression and selected variables.

KEY WORDS:

The key words of this study include Knowledge, Causes, Early symptoms,
Depression, Women and Rural community

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

SL. NO. CONTENTS PAGE NO.

1. Introduction 1-10

2. Objectives 11-17

3. Review of Literature 18-30

4. Methodology 31-45

5. Results 46-74

6. Discussion 75-78

7. Conclusion 79-81

8. Summary 82-84

9. Bibliography 85-90

10. Annexure 91-123

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