Factors contributing to the academic performance of undergraduate nursing students in Sumandeep Nursing College

Abstract

Background: This study was designed to investigate the factors affecting the academic performance of undergraduate students in Sumandeep Nursing College. Emphasis was put on trying to establish the relationship between age, gender, socioeconomic status, current living pattern, the area of domicile, religion, parents educational status. The validity and reliability of research instruments were established and data were collected from 168 students selected from 2ndyear, 3rdyear & 4thyear B.SC nursing in Sumandeep Nursing College using the simple random sampling method. To analyze the data, the Pearson product moment correlation statistical tool was used with the aim of establishing to find an association between academic performance with selected demographic variables. This formed the basis for the detailed analysis and conclusions and recommendations.

Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to find out the factors contributing to the academic performance of undergraduate nursing students.

Material and method: Descriptive research design was adopted to achieve the goal of the study. The tool consists of two parts: First part consists demographic data of the sample and second part consists of Self-structured Likert scale. 168 samples were collected from selected classes of Sumandeep Nursing College by simple random sampling technique.

Results: The findings shows that association between factors contributing to the academic performance with their selected demographic variable such as socioeconomic status (22.017), current living pattern (14.050) and religion (17.408) are significant at 0.05 level of significance and variables such as age (2.458), gender (1.886), medium of schooling (0.835), area of domicile (1.233), type of family (1.553) and educational level of parents (2.811) where not significant at 0.05 level of significance. Thus it can be interpreted that there is a significant association between factors contributing to the academic performance with their selected socio demographical variable. The specific factors contributing to the academic performance is interest with the maximum score 33.2159, mean score 32.5952, mean percentage 98.13132 and standard deviation.

Conclusion: The following conclusion can be drawn from the study findings, which are supported by evidence from the other literature; the self-administered Likert scale has shown a remarkable association between academic performance with selected demographic variables. Using the statistical formula we have computed the association between the demographic variables and academic performance.