Myth Evaluations of Nursing Students about Older Adults during Disasters

Abstract

Ensuring the health welfare of older adults in emergencies and disasters is a public health problem. This study aims to analyze the evaluation of the myths, which older adults are exposed to during disasters and emergencies, by the nursing students of a university. The number of the students in the descriptive cross-sectional study was 377, and 83.0% of the population were reached. The data of the variables included some questions of the questionnaire used by the UNISDR in a research about the elderly and the myth questions in the book entitled International Disaster Nursing. 80.4% of the research group were female and 56.0 were junior class students, whereas 93.6% lived with both parents and 38.5% had a disaster. The mean (SS) age of the group was 19.89 (1.7) and the mean scores of the participants were 2.97 (1.07) for the Older People Myth Index (OPMI), 30.94 (6.19) for the vulnerability index and 6.41 (1.73) for the value index. . In logistic regression modeling with selected variables, there was a relationship between the junior variable and the OPMI. Accordingly, the junior class is inadequate in terms of elderly disaster myth rating compared to the senior class (OR = 2.11; GA = 1.055-4.225, p <0.05). There was a relationship between the students' OPMI scores and the junior classes. Therefore, it was found that education had a positive effect on the perception of older adults.

Keywords

• Disaster
• Nursing
• Myth
• Older Adults
• University

Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin Afetlerde Yaşlılar Hakkındaki Mit Görüşlerinin Değerlendirilmesi

Öz

Acil durumlarda ve afetlerde yaşlıların sağlık refahının sağlanması bir halk sağlığı sorunudur. Bu çalışma, bir üniversitenin hemşirelik öğrencilerinin afet ve acil durumlarda yaşlıların maruz kaldıkları mitlere ilişkin değerlendirmelerini incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Tanımlayıcı kesitsel çalışmada öğrenci sayısı 377 olup, evrenin %83.0'ına ulaşılmıştır. Ankette UNISDR tarafından yaşlılar hakkında bir araştırmada kullanılan anket çalışmasının bazı soruları ve International Disaster Nursing kitabında yer alan mit soruları kullanılmıştır. Araştırma grubunun %80,4'ü kadın ve %56,0'ı birinci sınıf öğrencisi dir. Katılımcıların %93,6'sı her iki ebeveyni ile birlikte yaşıyor ve %38.5'i bir afet yaşamıştır. Grubun yaş ortalaması (SS) 19,89 (1,07) ve katılımcıların ortalama puanları Yaşlı Yetişkinler Mit İndeksi (OPMI) için 2,97 (1,07), savunmasızlık indeksi için 30,94 (6,19) ve değer indeksi için 6,41 (1,73)'dir. Seçilen değişkenlerle lojistik regresyon modellemesinde, junior değişken ile OPMI arasında bir ilişki vardı. Buna göre alt sınıf, kıdemli sınıfa göre yaşlı afet mit derecelendirmesi açısından yetersizdir (OR = 2.11; GA = 1.055-4.225, p <0.05). Araştırma sonuçlarına göre; öğrencilerin OPMI puanları ile alt sınıflar arasında bir ilişki vardır. Dolayısıyla eğitimin yaşlı yetişkin algısı üzerinde olumlu bir etkisi olduğu bulunmuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Afet
• Hemşirelik
• Mitler
• Üniversite
• Yaşlılar

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