Awareness on Immunity Boosting Measures for Self-care among Residents of Urban Community of Pune City

Abstract

Introduction: Ministry of Ayush applauds guidelines for immunity boosting measures for self-care to
enhance immunity with special reference to respiratory health of individual. These guidelines are supported
by Ayurveda literature and scientific publications. To maintain the optimum health it is very important to
enhance the body’s natural defense system i.e immunity of individual Objective :To assess the Immunity
boosting measures for self-care among residents of Urban community and to determine the association of
awareness with selected demographic variables Methods: Quantitative non experimental survey research
design was used for the study. Sample size comprised of 100. Non probability convenience sampling
technique was used for the study. Reliability of the tool was calculated by cronbach’s alpha method and
was 0.802.Tool includes Two sections. Section I included demographic proforma of the sample. It consisted
of information on variables like age, gender, Occupation. Education and Religion. Section II was about
self-administered structured knowledge questionnaire comprised of twenty one questions .After taking the
consent from each samples tool was administered to participants. Result: Majority of respondents have
average knowledge ( 49.7% ) , good knowledge (04%) and 46.3% respondents had poor knowledge . Since
all the p-values are large (greater than 0.05), there is no evidence against null hypothesis. None of the
demographic variable was found to have significant associated with knowledge of the urban community
residents regarding immunity boosting measures for self care Conclusion: The residents had considerable
average knowledge regarding Immunity boosting measures for self care. The enhancement in knowledge is
greatly required on Immunity boosting measures for self care