Asian Pacific Journal of Nursing

A STUDY TO ASSESS ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE POST-TEST LEVEL OF RESPIRATORY PARAMETERS WITH SELECTED DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES AMONG THE CHILDREN WITH LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION

Marynithya P* and Janahi Devi V

nithyamary.30@gmail.com

Demographic Variables, Respiratory Parameters, Children, Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, Post Test

A study was conducted “to find out the association between the post-test level of respiratory parameters with selected demographic variables such as Personal statistic includes child’s age, sex, order of birth, type of family, religion residence, income, father’s occupation, diagnosis, previous hospitalization, duration of hospitalization, pet animal in home, types of allergy and previous habits of balloon blowing among the children with lower respiratory tract infection in control and experimental group.In this study a quasi-experimental research design was adopted. Non-probability Purposive sampling technique was used to selected the sample, each 30 sample in control and experimental group equally. The data of Demographic Variables gathered was analysed by Chi-square test statistical method and interpretations were made based on the objectives of the study. While all the other parameters viz. gender of the child, order of birth, type of family, religion, residence, income, occupation of father, diagnosis, previous hospitalization, duration of hospitalization, pet animals in home and type of allergen had no significant association with post test level of respiratory parameters (p>0.05), showing that post test respiratory level is independent of these demographic variables in the experimental group. There was a significant association seen between post- test level of respiratory parameters and age of the children, previous habits of balloon blowing exercise (p=0.001), showing that the post-test level of respiratory parameters is dependent on the age of the children and previous habits of balloon blowing exercise in the experimental group.