A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge and Attitude regarding the Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana among the people in selected Urban Community of Visnagar

Manthankumar N. Kapadiya

Nursing Tutor, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, Dist: Mehsana, Gujarat.

*Corresponding Author E-mail: mnkapadiya9498@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

INTRODUCTION: Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana is a health care plan developed by the Government of Gujarat to help poor families in their major adversities.¹ MA Amrutam Yojana has been implemented for all families living under poverty line in all the districts of Gujarat state from 4th September 2012.² DESIGN: A quantitative approach using Descriptive survey research design. PARTICIPANTS: 100 urban people were selected using Probability Simple random sampling technique in selected urban areas of Visnagar. TOOL: Self Structured Questionnaire was used to assess the level of Knowledge regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana and Likert scale (five-point scale) to assess the attitude towards Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana among the urban people. RESULTS: In this study overall the highest percentage in the demographic data including the Age group 29.7% (29-39yr), Gender 51.3% (female), Marital status 71% (Married), Type of family 47.3% (joint family), Education qualification 30.3% (Secondary education), Occupation 40% (Unemployed), Monthly income 34% (above 15000) and previous knowledge 48% (yes). 26.33% of sample had poor knowledge score (0-6), 60.33% of them had average knowledge score (7-13) and 13.33% of them had good knowledge score (14-20) regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana. 22% of urban people have negative attitude while 78% have positive attitude towards Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana. The correlation coefficient was done to assess relation between knowledge and attitude. The result was 0.59. It shows there was moderate relation between knowledge and attitude regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana Chi-square test used to associate the level of knowledge and attitude with selected demographic variable at 0.05 level of significant. CONCLUSION: The findings of the study revealed that sample have average knowledge about Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana. The findings of the study indicate there was moderate relation between knowledge and attitude regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana.

KEYWORDS: Assess, Knowledge, Attitude, Mukhyamantri amrutam yojana, Urban.

INTRODUCTION:

Only 15% of Indians are protected by health insurance cover, which leaves a vast majority of the population to finance medical care out of their pocket.¹ However, growing awareness about health and lifestyle diseases as well as the desire to be financially prepared to meet high costs of medical treatments is leading many to purchase health insurance for their family.²

However, to the low-income families, the government offers several fully-funded schemes in states across India.³ Mukhyamantri Amrutum Yojana or MA Yojana is one such scheme for those residing in Gujarat.⁴ Let us understand this government sponsored health scheme in detail. Mukhyamantri Amrutum Vatsalaya, also known as MA Yojana, was inaugurated in September 2012 to provide financial assistance to those living Below Poverty Line (BPL).⁵

However, it has been extended to lower-middle class families later. It prides itself on being a holistic health scheme that provides coverage right from the time a person is diagnosed with a medical condition, to the treatment as well as the cost of care after hospitalization.⁶

NEED OF THE STUDY:

With the government sparing just 1.3 percent of the GDP for public healthcare, way less than the global average of 6 per cent, there remains a heavy medical expenditure across rural and urban hospitals. Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana is a tertiary care scheme for Below Poverty Line (BPL) population of Gujarat.⁷ the following illness will be served completely cashless on the mentioned hospitals. The Mukhyamantri Amrutum (MA) Yojana is fully sponsored and handled by the government of Gujarat. A large number of households are pushed into poverty as a result of high costs of household spending on health care.⁸The Below Poverty Line (BPL) population is especially vulnerable to the catastrophic health risks. To address this key vulnerability faced by the BPL population in the Gujarat, the State Government has launched a medical care scheme called Mukhyamantri Amrutum (MA) Yojana.⁹The objective of the scheme is to improve access of BPL families to quality medical and surgical care for the treatment of identified diseases involving hospitalization, surgeries and therapies through an em panel network of health care providers.¹⁰

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

· To assess the knowledge regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana among the urban people.

· To assess the attitude of the urban people towards Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana.

· To find out the correlation between knowledge and attitude of the urban people regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana.

· To find out the association of the knowledge with their selected demographic variables.

· To find out the association of the attitude with their selected demographic variables.

ASSUMPTIONS:

· The urban people may have some knowledge regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana

· The urban people may have positive attitude towards Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana

MATERIAL AND METHODS:

Quantitative non experimental descriptive survey research design was used by using simple random sampling technique. This study was also done on 100 samples; data was collected by self structured knowledge questionnaire and attitude scale to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana.

RESULTS:

Demographic data was analyzed using frequency and percentage. Frequencies, percentage, mean, mean percentage and standard deviation was used to determine the knowledge score. The correlation coefficient was done to assess relation between knowledge and attitude. Chi-square test was done to determine the association of the knowledge of urban people with selected demographic variables and association of the attitude of urban people with selected demographic variables.

FINDING RELATED TO DEMOGRAPHIC DATA:

In this study overall the highest percentage in the demographic data including the Age group 29.7% (29-39yr), Gender 51.3% (female), Marital status 71% (Married), Type of family 47.3%(joint family), Education qualification 30.3%(Secondary education), Occupation 40% (Unemployed), Monthly income 34% (above 15000) and previous knowledge 48%(yes). 26.33% of sample had poor knowledge score (0-6), 60.33% of them had average knowledge score(7-13) and 13.33% of them had good knowledge score(14-20) regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana.22% of urban people have negative attitude while 78% have positive attitude towards Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana.

Percentage, mean percentages, SD of knowledge and attitude regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana.

Test	Mean	Mean percentage	SD
Knowledge	9.5	47.61%	3.69
Attitude	46.48	387.36%	5.37

CONCLUSION:

The present study aims is to assess the level of knowledge and attitude regarding Mukhyamantri Amrutam Yojana among urban people. The study was conducted by using quantitative non experimental descriptive survey research design. The sample size was 100 urban people. Probability simple random sampling technique was used.

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Received on 07.03.2021 Modified on 23.11.2021

Int. J. Nur. Edu. and Research. 2022; 10(2):97-98.

DOI: 10.52711/2454-2660.2022.00022