Unconsciousness, more appropriately referred to as loss of consciousness or lack of consciousness, is a dramatic alteration of mental state that involves complete or near-complete lack of responsiveness to people and other environmental stimuli. Being in a comatose state or coma is an illustration of unconsciousness. Loss of consciousness may occur as the result of Traumatic Brain Injury, brain hypoxia (e.g., due to a brain infraction or cardiac arrest), severe poisoning with drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system (e.g., alcohol and other hypnotic or sedative drugs), severe fatigue, and other causes. Title of the study “A study to assess the effectiveness of sensory stimulation to improve the level of consciousness among traumatic brain injury patients in selected hospitals at Udaipur.” Objective of the study was to assess the level of consciousness among traumatic brain injury patients in experimental and control group. To evaluate the effectiveness of sensory stimulation to improve the level of consciousness among traumatic brain injury patients in experimental group. To find out the association between pre-test score of level of consciousness with selected socio-demographic variables in experimental and control group. The method adopted for the present study was quantitative experimental research approach, as the study aimed at nursing intervention (Sensory Stimulations) for assessing the level of consciousness among traumatic brain injury patients admitted in Geetanjali hospital & Pacific hospital. This approach would help the investigator to evaluate the effect of specific intervention that is “Sensory Stimulations – Auditory, Visual & Movement” on traumatic brain injury patients in selected hospitals at Udaipur. In this study samples were drawn by using purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by using standardized glasgow coma scale. Result revealed that The level of consciousness of traumatic brain injury patients was assessed. The “t” value was 7.23, and was significantly higher than the table value 2.05 at 0.05 level. This indicates that there was significant difference between pre-test and post-test level of consciousness among traumatic brain injury patients in experimental group. Hence, the research hypothesis H1 was proved and accepted. There was a significant association between pre-test level of consciousness score with selected socio- demographic variables, such as gender (?2=5.66), educational status (?2=9.60), lesion of brain injury (?2=14.72), duration of hospital stay (?2=6.55) were significant at 0.05 level in experimental group. Hence, research hypothesis H2 was accepted.
unconsciosness, dramatic alteration, environmental stimuli. comatose state, illustration
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