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ENDORSEMENT TITLE

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A study on knowledge regarding sexually tranlly transmitted infection among the workers of carpet factory Balkumari, Lalitpur.

BY

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Sumitra Ghimire

Course

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Post Basic Bachelor in Nursing: Community speciality

Area

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Carpet Factories of Balkumari, Lalitpur.

Accepted by :

The Faculty of Medicine Tribhuvan University Lalitpur Nursing Campus In partial fulfillment of requirement for post Basic Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.

…………….……………. Mrs. Rebecca Sinha

Campus Chief Lalitpur Nursing Campus

………………………….. Mrs Radha Bangdel

Assistant Campus chief Lalitpur Nursing Campus

…………………………. Mrs. Ambika Poudel

Research Advisor Lalitpur Nursing Campus

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AKNOWLEDGEMENT This descriptive educational research study has been completed with the encouragement, suggestions, guidance, and help of many persons, without which I could not have been able to complete this research. I would like to express my cardinal thanks to the following persons who have contributed to the accomplishments of this study. First of all I would like to express my hearty gratitude to the Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine, Lalitpur Nursing Campus for providing me great opportunity to carry out this study as a partial fulfillment of Bachelor Degree in community nursing. My sincere gratitude goes to respected Campus Chief Mrs. Rebecca Sinha and Assistant Campus chief Radha Bangdel of Lalitpur Nursing Campus for their constant support and valuable suggestion during the whole research study. I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to my research advisor Mrs Ambika Paudel for her constant guidance, support, valuable suggestion, and encouragement in the process of research. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the Coordinator for BN 2nd year Program, Mrs Khagi Maya Pun, research teacher Ranjana Shrestha and faculty teachers for their valuable suggestion, guidance and support during the course of study. My sincere appreciation goes to the owners of carpet factories,Balkumari Lalitpur for giving me permission to conduct the research . I would like to express my great sense of honor to Prof. Chitra Kumar Gurung for his valuable help to analyze data and English Lecturer Dipak Kumar Sapkota for linguistic correction. I would like to express great sense of thanks to the Librarian of Lalitpur Nursing Campus Mrs. Rajani Shrestha for valuable help to collect related literature and material for study and executive secretary Ujwal Upadhya for his kind help and guidance of computer work and editing the final print of research report.

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I would like give cardinal thanks to my family members for their continuous support and encouragement to conduct the research. I am also highly indebted to colleagues for their continuous support, cooperation and encouragement for this study. Lastly, I should also be obliged to all respondents for their cooperation and participation in this study.

SUMITRA GHIMIRE

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ABSTRACT This small scale descriptive study was conducted as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for bachelor of nursing program at carpet factories of the Balkumari, Lalitpur among 60 respondents. The main purpose of the study was to assess the knowledge on sexually transmitted infection among the workers of carpet factory. Purposive sampling technique was used for data collection. The time period of this study was 5 weeks, structured and close ended questionnaires were developed based on related literature and objectives. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect data. To get information confidentially, structured questionnaire interview technique was used. Collected data were analyzed by using of simple statistics such as percentage, frequency and mean score. In this study, total 10 questions were knowledge related questions.

The study hypothesized that literate workers will have more knowledge than illiterate workers and the second hypothesis was the male respondents will have more knowledge than female respondents.

The findings of the study showed that the mean knowledge score of literate workers was 8.37 and the mean knowledge score of illiterate workers was 5.5. The literate respondents were significantly more knowledgeable than illiterate workers. The mean knowledge score of male was 8.39 and mean knowledge score of female was 5.25. The male respondents were more knowledgeable than female respondents.

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TABLE OF CONTENT Content

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Endorsement …………………………………….

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Acknowledgement…………………………..... …

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Abstract………………………………………. . ..

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Table of content………………………………….

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List of table………………………………............

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List of figure…………………………………......

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Abbreviations……………………………….........

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CHAPTER-I Introduction

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1.1 Background of the study……………………..

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1.2 Significance of the study……………………..

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1.3 Statement of the problem…………………….

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1.4 Objective of the study………………………..

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1.5 Hypothesis……………………………………

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1.6 Operational definition………………………..

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1.7 Limitation of the study………………………

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CHAPTER-II Review of related literature

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2.1 Review of related literature…………………..

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2.2 Summary of related review literature…………

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CHAPTER-III Research Methodology

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3.1

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Research design…………………………….. v

3.2

Study area…………………………………....

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3.3

Population of study…………………………..

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3.4

Sample size of the study……………………..

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3.5

Sampling Technique…………………………

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3.6

Criteria for sample collection………………..

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3.7 Variables

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Data gathering tools………………………....

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Data collection procedure……………………

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3.10 Validity and reliability of the research……...

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3.11 Pre-test……………………………………….

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3.12 Ethical consideration………………………..

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3.13 Data analysis procedure……………………..

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3.14 Budget and time…………………………….

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3.15 Knowledge scoring procedure……………....

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CHAPTER-IV Analysis and interpretation

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4.1 The demographic information………………..

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4.2 Knowledge assessment……………………….

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4.3 Hypothesis testing…………………………….

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CHAPTER-V Summary conclusion and Recommendation

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5.1 Summary………………………………………

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5.2 Conclusion…………………………………….

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5.3 Implication of the study………………………

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5.4 Recommendation……………………………..

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5.5 Strength of the study………………………....

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5.6 Difficulties……………………………………

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5.7 Plan for dissemination………………………..

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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APPENDICES Questionnaire Time schedule Permission letter

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ABBREVIATION AIDs -----------------

:Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom

BN

: Bachaler Of Nursing

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FP ---------------------

:Family Planning

HIV -------------------

:Human Immune Deficiency Virus

IOM-------------------

: Institute Of Medicine

MOH..………….

: Ministry of health

NCASC………….

: National Centre for AIDs and STD control

STIs ------------------

: Sexually transmitted Infection

STDs-----------------

: Sexually transmitted infection

UNDP---------------

: United Nations Development Program

USTI------------------

: International union against sexually transmitted infection

WHO ----------------

: World Health Organization

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List of Tables Table

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Table 4.1. Distribution of respondents according to demographic Information

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Table 4.2 The knowledge score about sexually transmitted Infection of the carpet factory workers

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Table 4.4. Distribution of respondents according to sources of Information

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Table 4.6. Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About transmission of STIs

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Table 4.7. Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About sign and symptoms of STIs

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Table 4.8. Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About how could not transmission of STIs

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Table 4.9. Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About the vulnerable group for STIs

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Table 4.16 .Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About prevention of STIs

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Table.4.17. Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About STIs between literate and illiterate

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Table 4.18. Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About STIs between male and female.

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List of figures

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Figure 4.3- Distribution of respondents according to heard About STIs

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Figure 4.5- Distribution of respondents according knowledge On listing the different name of STIs

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Figure 4.10- Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About treatment is possible or not possible for STIs

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Figure 4.11- Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About treatment of STIs

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Figure 4.12-Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About both should be treated for STI

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Figure 4.13- Distribution of respondents according to knowledge About complication of STIs

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Figure 4.14- Distribution of respondents according to have sexual Relation without using condom

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Figure 4.15- Distribution of respondents according to have sexual Relation without using condom

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