Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: April | Volume: 10 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 1-5
Assessment of Understanding of Academic Integrity among Nursing Students
Rahul B. Pandit, Sunita T. Gite
B. J. Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital, Pune.
Corresponding Author: Rahul B. Pandit
ABSTRACT
A clear sense of academic honesty and responsibility is fundamental to good scholarship, and the integrity of university academic work and the degrees conferred by the university is dependent upon the honesty and soundness of the teacher-student learning relationship and of the evaluation process. The aim of this study was to assess the understanding of academic integrity among nursing students.1
Methods: A Descriptive research approach was used for the present study. The study comprised of 50 Nursing Students of selected Nursing Colleges. Twelve true or false questions prepared by the Texas Tech University Ethics Center were used for data collection. Purposive sampling technique was used for data collection. Formal permission was obtained from concerned authority for data collection. The analysis of the data was done by using descriptive statistics.
Results: The results showed that, 86% of nursing students in the age group of 19 - 25 years and 52% of nursing students were male. 60% of nursing students were having good comprehension of academic integrity and 40% of nursing students were having excellent comprehension of academic integrity. Mean knowledge score of nursing students was 9.14. There was not significant association found with selected demographic variable.
Conclusion: The study shows that most of the nursing students were having good comprehension of academic integrity. 60% of nursing students had good comprehension of academic integrity.
Key words: Academic integrity, dishonesty, nursing, students.