Knowledge On How To Read An Article - A Cross Sectional Survey Among Undergraduates

Abstract

Background: An article is a written work published in a print or electronic medium. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc.

Aim: The aim of the study is to evaluate the knowledge about how to read an article among undergraduates.

Materials and methods: This study is a questionnaire based survey to evaluate the knowledge about how to read an article among undergraduates. About 102 responses were obtained from the given questionnaire. The data collected through google forms and analysed using SPSS software version 23. The responses were tabulated in the form of pie charts and bar charts.

Results: It was observed that the majority of students who responded were from first year (48.04%), pursued by their second (35.29 %), third (10.78 %), and fourth year (5.88 %) . This study found that 6.74% of second-year students were aware of how to read an article, followed by 2.61% of third-year students, 2.07% of first-year students, 1.74% of fourth- year students. Pearson chi-square test was done between association between the year of study and response on how often they read an article and p value is  0.015 and hence it is significant.

Conclusion: It was observed that second years were more into reading an article and also had better knowledge and information about how to read an article when compared to the group of other year students. The survey can be conducted in offline mode rather than online so that the knowledge  of the subjects could be analysed accurately.