Attitudes toward and willingness to work with older people among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Sri Lanka: A cross sectional study
Background:With the increased number of older people globally, caring for older people has become a challenge for many countries. Nurses have a pivotal role in providing quality care for older people and care is affected by their attitudes. The preparation of nurses to deliver quality care needs t...
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my.unimas.ir.113552021-06-09T15:58:13Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11355/ Attitudes toward and willingness to work with older people among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Sri Lanka: A cross sectional study Sarath, Rathnayake Yamuna, Athukorala Sidiah, John Siop H Social Sciences (General) RT Nursing Background:With the increased number of older people globally, caring for older people has become a challenge for many countries. Nurses have a pivotal role in providing quality care for older people and care is affected by their attitudes. The preparation of nurses to deliver quality care needs to be instilled during their studying in the Schools of Nursing. Objective: To examine the attitudes of nursing students toward and theirwillingness toworkwith older people in Sri Lanka. Methodology: A purposive sample of 98 first to fourth year undergraduate nursing students in the Department of Nursing, University of Peradeniya completed a self-administered questionnaire consisting of socio-demographic variables, Kogan's Attitudes toward Older People Scale, and questions related to willingness to work with older people. Results: Fifty percent of the respondents (n=49) held slightly positive attitudes toward older people while 45% (n= 44) held slightly negative attitudes. About one-third of the respondents (29.9%, n =29) selected the elderly group as the least preferred group for their future career from the categorized seven age groups. Only 5.1% (n = 5) of the respondents ranked the elderly group as the first preferred group. There was a significant difference in attitudes between students who lived with older people and students who did not live with older people (t = 2.565, p = .012). There was a positive relationship between attitudes and preference for working with older people (r = .342, p = .001). Conclusion: Nursing students havemoderately positive attitudes toward older people; however, they show little interest in working with older people. Living with older people develops positive attitudes of young people toward older people. Attitudes are related to the selection in area of specialty in nursing. Nursing curricula need to include Gerontological Nursing as a major area. Elsevier Ltd. 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11355/1/Sarath.pdf Sarath, Rathnayake and Yamuna, Athukorala and Sidiah, John Siop (2016) Attitudes toward and willingness to work with older people among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Sri Lanka: A cross sectional study. Nurse Education Today, 36. pp. 439-444. ISSN 0260-6917 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84951304907&partnerID=40&md5=1c5b2f4b2a6119e4dbed09e6389483b9 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2015.10.007 |
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Background:With the increased number of older people globally, caring for older people has become a challenge
for many countries. Nurses have a pivotal role in providing quality care for older people and care is affected by
their attitudes. The preparation of nurses to deliver quality care needs to be instilled during their studying in
the Schools of Nursing.
Objective: To examine the attitudes of nursing students toward and theirwillingness toworkwith older people in
Sri Lanka.
Methodology: A purposive sample of 98 first to fourth year undergraduate nursing students in the Department of
Nursing, University of Peradeniya completed a self-administered questionnaire consisting of socio-demographic
variables, Kogan's Attitudes toward Older People Scale, and questions related to willingness to work with older
people.
Results: Fifty percent of the respondents (n=49) held slightly positive attitudes toward older people while
45% (n= 44) held slightly negative attitudes. About one-third of the respondents (29.9%, n =29) selected
the elderly group as the least preferred group for their future career from the categorized seven age groups.
Only 5.1% (n = 5) of the respondents ranked the elderly group as the first preferred group. There was a significant
difference in attitudes between students who lived with older people and students who did not live with
older people (t = 2.565, p = .012). There was a positive relationship between attitudes and preference for
working with older people (r = .342, p = .001).
Conclusion: Nursing students havemoderately positive attitudes toward older people; however, they show little
interest in working with older people. Living with older people develops positive attitudes of young people
toward older people. Attitudes are related to the selection in area of specialty in nursing. Nursing curricula
need to include Gerontological Nursing as a major area. |
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Attitudes toward and willingness to work with older people among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Sri Lanka: A cross sectional study |
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Attitudes toward and willingness to work with older people among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Sri Lanka: A cross sectional study |
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Attitudes toward and willingness to work with older people among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Sri Lanka: A cross sectional study |
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Attitudes toward and willingness to work with older people among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Sri Lanka: A cross sectional study |
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