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Assessment Student s’ Knowledge and Practice regarding Physical Impairments at Helwan University

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Community Health Nursing.

Abstract

Background: Physical impairment is a disability that limits a student's physical capacity to move, coordinate actions or performs physical activities. It is accompanied by difficulties in one or more of the following areas: physical and motor tasks, independent movement, and performing daily living functions. Aim: This study aimed to assess the student s' knowledge and practice regarding physical impairments at Helwan University. Research hypothesis: Descriptive research design was used in this study. Sample: Purposive sample include 118 students, who suffering from physical impairment. Setting: Excellence center for students with disabilities, three faculties (College of Commerce, college of literature, and the college of law), and emergency clinics at Helwan University. Tools for data collection: One tool included four parts, 1st: Interview questionnaire include socio-demographic characteristic, 2nd: Past and present history of student with physical impairments, 3rd: Students' knowledge of student with physical impairments, 4th: Students reported practice. Results: 80 % of studied subjects had good total knowledge about physical impairments. While 15 % of them had fair total knowledge about physical impairments. While 5 % of studied subjects had poor total knowledge about physical impairments, 63.6 % of the studied subjects had insufficient reported practices about physical impairments and that insufficient reported practices were improved about physical impairments where, it became only 1.7 %, the percentage of the studied subjects who had sufficient reported practices were became 98.3%. Conclusion: The current study concludes that the most of studied sample had unsatisfactory level of knowledge and pr

DOI

10.21608/hijnrp.2023.221626.1078

Keywords

Physical Impairments, Knowledge, Practice, Students

Authors

First Name

Hoda

Last Name

Soliman

MiddleName

Shehata

Affiliation

Community Health Nursing -Faculty of Nursing -Helwan University

Email

hodashehata55@gmail.com

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15 May

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2

Article Issue

4

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42147

Issue Date

2023-12-01

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2023-07-07

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2023-12-01

Page Start

92

Page End

112

Print ISSN

2735-5799

Online ISSN

2786-0183

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Scientific Research Periodical

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1,926

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Helwan International Journal for Nursing Research and Practice

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https://hijnrp.journals.ekb.eg/

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Assessment Student s’ Knowledge and Practice regarding Physical Impairments at Helwan University

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28 Dec 2024