A Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Air Pollution and Its Prevention People Residing in Selected Urban Areas of Pune City

Abstract

Background: World Health Organization, around 4.2 million individuals kick the bucket rashly from the
impacts of contaminated, open air each and every year, while a further 3.8 million pass on because of messy
indoor air.4,5 Air contamination is a tremendous issue and not only for individuals living in brown haze
gagged urban areas: through such things as an unnatural weather change and harm to the ozone layer, it
can possibly influence every one of us. So what precisely aims this major natural issue ? Air contamination
counteraction is a financial weight to an individual and to a country on a worldwide scale.1
Air contamination
is a danger to human and condition; along these lines, it is critical to comprehend key sources, causes,
wellbeing impacts related with air contamination. This monograph gives a review about air contamination
and proposes the appropriate preventive measures to lessen air contamination. 2
Methods: A non-experimental descriptive design with quantitative approach, was adopted to assess the
knowledge on air pollution and its prevention and Air Quality index among people residing in urban areas
of Pune city. It includes 250 samples from selected areas .Non probability convenience sampling technique
was adopted in this study.
Result: Based on the objectives of the study which is to assess the knowledge of the people and the
association between the demographic variables, the following result has been identified.
The knowledge level was identified as; 20.8% of the people have a poor knowledge level on air pollution, its
prevention and air quality index; 76% of the people have an average knowledge regarding air pollution, its
prevention and air quality index and only 3.2% of the people have good knowledge regarding air pollution,
its prevention and air quality index. By using the paired t test formula, the t value is 0.05. The demographic
variable of education alone has an association with 0.001 as the closest value to the average. The other
demographic variables of gender, age and employment do not have an association with the t value, as they
are more than the average with findings of 0.119, 0.643 and 0.481 respectively.