European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC ON POSITIVITY AMONG ADOLSCENTS IN KERALA

George Varghese*, Hridhya Merin Joseph, Jancy Saji, Julee Rajan and Feby Fulgen

ABSTRACT

The research work undertook was “A study to assess the impact of Covid 19 pandemic on positivity among adolescents in Kerala. ”The objective of the study was to: to assess the impact of Covid 19 on positivity among adolescents in Kerala, with selected demographic variables such as age, gender, education, occupation of parent, type of occupation, ,type of family. A quantitative approach was used in the study. Non probability convenient sampling technique was used. Sample consisted of 60 people in selected from different colleges of Kerala. The tool used for data collection was opinionnaire to know the impact of Covid 19 on positivity among adolescents. The data collected was analysed by using descriptive statistics. The results show that 97% were in the age group of 19-21 and 3% under the age group of 16-18. Regarding their gender it was found that 87% were females and 13 % were males. Regarding their education 56 % had degree and 27% had plus two, 15% had other qualification and 2 % had SSLC qualification. Regarding occupation of parent 53% of respondents parents are self employees, 40% respondent parent had private sector job and 7 % had government jobs. Regarding the type of occupation of parent 43% of respondent parents are in agricultural sector, 37 % is in technological sector job and 20 % of respondent parent are in health sector. Regarding the type of family all respondent are belonging to nuclear family. The present study revealed that 0 % had average positivity,93% of adolescents had good positivity and 7 % of had excellent positivity. It was found that the present study shows significant relationship between positivity level and demographic variables such as age, sex, education, religion ,occupation of parent, type of occupation and type of family.

Keywords: assess, impact of Covid 19 pandemic, positivity, adolescents.