Open AccessEffectiveness of online course on knowledge and perception regarding cyber safety among nursing students
Author(s) -
P Anitha,
Prema Balusamy
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences (ijhs) (en línea)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2550-6978
pISSN - 2550-696X
DOI - 10.53730/ijhs.v6ns1.4929
Subject(s) - the internet , focus group , test (biology) , online discussion , data collection , perception , qualitative property , psychology , space (punctuation) , medical education , nursing , medicine , computer science , world wide web , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , marketing , neuroscience , machine learning , business , biology , operating system
The cyber space connects millions of online users across the world and increasing use of cyber space, cybercrimes also increased. Cyber safety or online safety or internet safety is to give knowledge and information about user’s personal safety on internet and self-protection from computer crimes. The objectives of the study were: To determine the effectiveness of online course regarding cyber safety among Nursing students in terms of change in knowledge, To determine the level of perception and factors influencing online course regarding cyber safety as per viewed by Nursing students in experimental group and to associate the pretest knowledge regarding cyber safety among Nursing students and with their demographic variables in experimental group. Material and methods: Mixed method research approach, Explanatory Sequential mixed method was used in this study. Quantitative data was collected through online structured pretested questionnaire for both groups. Online course is administered only to experimental group. Post test was conducted after 15 days for both groups through online. Qualitative data collection through focus group discussion was done in experimental group. Each data was analyzed separately and data were interpreted together.