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Newspaper Reading Habits Essay

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Abstract Like other habits, reading habit also develops during the course of time by an individual. Newspapers helps to gain knowledge, improve reading habit and awareness .It plays a vital role in disseminating information concerning the latest trends and happening on the national and the international events. This paper discussed the newspaper reading habit among nurses working in government hospitals in Thiruvananthapuram district. A total of 180 questionnaires were distributed randomly among selected nurses and 139 filled in questionnaires were received showing overall response rate of 77.2%. It was discovered that the majority of the respondents read newspapers daily. Keywords: Newspaper Reading Habits, Nurses, Government Hospital, …show more content…

Review of Literature For literature review for the present study, the investigator searched the LISA Plus (Library and Information Science Abstracts) database, Pub Med, Emerald and Shodh Ganga. The reviews are as follows. Sivakumar,N and Tamilselvan,N(2015) in their study ’Newspaper reading habits of College students’ explores the use of newspapers among the students at Kalaignar Karunanidhi Institute of Technology Library, Coimbatore. They found that majority of the respondents read newspapers daily. Favourite newspapers among the students are from English and Tamil language. Findings also show that students spent reading newspapers one or two hours daily. Praveen Patel, Devendra Patel & Haresh Patel(2014) conducted a study’ Reading Habits of Newspapers in Pharmacy college: An analytical study’. Out of 301 respondents, 50.17% under graduate students, 13.62% post graduate students and 6.98%faculty members spent less than 30 minutes per day to read newspaper. Pharmacy professionals spent 30 minutes to 1 hour to read newspapers.

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