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Community and Public Health Nursing

Volume  4, Issue 3, September-December 2019, Pages 167-168
 

Original Article

Comparsion of Family Function Among Adolescents in Urban and Rural Schools

R Sindhu Priya1, Jayestri Kurushev2, A Felicia Chitra3

1 M.Sc. (Nursing), 2 Professor, 3 Principal, Collage of Nursing, Mother Theresa Post Graduate & Research Institute Of Health Sciences, Puducherry 605006, India.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/cphn.2455.8621.4319.8

Abstract

Introduction: Children are the corner stone of a family and family is the corner of society and country. From the perspective of children, the Family is a “Family of orientation.” The Family serves to locate children socially and plays a major role in their enculturation and socialization. Teenage is a beautiful phase of life where dream are built and a child turns into an energetic and confident individual. Those are the years to foster moral principles, construct you’re their system and begin their journey in the right path. Methodology: Quantitative research approach and descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the 200 people from the selected urban and rural schools at Puducherry. The result showed that The overall level of family function showed that the most 86 of the adolescents in urban schools had a highly functional family, 12% had moderately dysfunctional family and 2% had sever dysfunctional family. Whereas in adolescents of rural school 79% had a highly functional family, 16% had moderately dysfunctional family and 5% had severed dysfunctional family. Conclusion: The present study revealed that in the level of family function. The urban school adolescents were highly family function than rural school adolescents. So, the adolescents were involved with their family function they improve their academic activities it is important for the adolescents to involve family function.

 


Keywords : Adolescent student; Family function; Urban and rural school.
Corresponding Author : Jayestri Kurushev