A Study on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice regarding Electronic Waste Management among Medical Students.

Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences

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Vidhyashree¹  Soorya Sridhar²  Abiselvi A.³ 

[1] Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College -Omandurar Government Estate;Department of Anatomy, Stanley Medical College;Department of Community Medicine, Government ThoothukudiMedical College

关键词: E-waste;    Knowledge;    Practice;    Students;    Recycle;   

DOI  :  10.33887/rjpbcs/2022.13.1.32

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences

【 摘 要 】

New environmental challenge - “Electronics Waste” or “e waste” that consists of electronicdevices whatever we use in our daily life.Young adults should aware of this e waste management whichwill reduce the burden of this e waste management. Currently, most of the domestic used electronicswere end up in landfill sites without proper treatment because there is no segregation mechanism Toassess the knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding Electronic waste management among medicalstudents. Among 300 medical students of first to third year students was involved in the study a crosssectional study to assess the knowledge attitude and practice about the e-waste. Predesigned semistructured questionnaire given and data was collected after taking informed consent. The data collected wascoded and entered in Microsoft office excel worksheet and analysis done using trial version SPSS.Descriptivestatistics was done. Result: Among the 300 students 289(96.4%) students had the knowledge of the e wastehazardous to the environment.This study can throw light on E -waste management and the necessity ofeducating youngsters about appropriate methods of Electronic waste disposal. New Regulations have tobe in place to control the flow of e-waste. Awareness about the proper disposal of waste and its propertreatment will bring down this great threat.

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