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@article{174730,
        author = {M. Grace Lydia and Dr. D. Celina and Dr. S. Kanchana and Ms. Aswathi},
        title = {A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION REGARDING CYBER SECURITY AMONG NURSING STUDENTS},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {501-504},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=174730},
        abstract = {Cyber security is the protection of systems in the organizations, their data and network in the cyberspace A successful cyber security approach has multiple layers of protection spread across the computers, networks, programs, or data that one intends to keep safe; it has to be followed by organization, business or individual. In an organization, the people, processes, and technology must complement one another to create an effective defense from cyber-attacks. Objectives: To assess the knowledge and perception regarding cyber security among nursing students. Methodology: Quantitative approach with non-experimental descriptive design was chosen. A total of 90 nursing students were selected through non probability convenient sampling technique. Structured questionnaire and Likert scale were the data collection tools. Result: The study findings revealed that most of the nursing students (52.87%) had inadequate knowledge and only 4.60 % had adequate level of knowledge on cyber security, it was also revealed there is a significant, positive moderate correlation between knowledge and perception score indicating that as knowledge increases their perception also increases moderately and the was a significant statistical association between the level of knowledge and age in years, type of family and awareness about cybercrime at p=0.05. The other demographic variables such as gender, religion, year of study, total number of family members including self, family monthly income, their hobbies, parent’s educational qualification and parent’s occupational status did not reveal any significant association with the level of knowledge perception regarding cyber security. Conclusion: The study concluded that there is no significant association between the mean levels of knowledge and perception of cyber security with the selected demographic variables.},
        keywords = {cyber security, nursing students, knowledge},
        month = {March},
        }