Öğrenci Hemşirelerin Yaşlılığa İlişkin Görüşleri ve Yaşlılara Karşı Tutumları

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Giriş: Bugünün öğrenci hemşireleri aynı zamanda yarının birer bakım profesyonelidir. Geriatrik yaş grubu, bakım gereksinimi daimi olan bir popülasyonu oluşturduğu için öğrencilerin yaşlılığa ilişkin görüşlerinin ve yaşlılara karşı tutumlarının bilinmesi önemlidir. Amaç: Bu araştırma, öğrenci hemşirelerin yaşlılığa ilişkin görüşlerini ve yaşlılara karşı tutumlarını belirlemek amacıyla tanımlayıcı olarak yapıldı.Yöntem: Araştırmanın örneklemini Mart-Haziran 2011 tarihleri arasında Atatürk Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi Hemşirelik Bölümü’nde öğrenim görmekte olan ve araştırmaya katılmayı kabul eden 308 öğrenci oluşturdu. Veriler, araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlanan tanıtıcı özellikler formu, yaşlılığa ilişkin görüşler formu ve Kogan Yaşlılara Karşı Tutum Ölçeği Türkçe formu kullanılarak toplandı. Verilerin değerlendirilmesinde frekans, yüzdelik oran, t testi, ANOVA ve kruskal wallis testleri kullanıldı. Bulgular: Öğrencilerin mezuniyet sonrası çok düşük bir oranının yaşlı grup (%4.2) ile çalışmak istedikleri, yaşlılığı “bağımlılık, pasiflik, yoksulluk” olarak algıladıkları (%69.8) ve öğrencilerin yaşlılara karşı tutum puan ortalamalarının 99.49 ± 11.12 olduğu bulundu. Sonuç: Öğrencilerin genel olarak yaşlılığa ilişkin görüşlerinin negatif, yaşlılara karşı tutumlarının pozitif olduğu bulundu. Lisans eğitim müfredatına gerontoloji dersininkonulması, bu konuya ilişkin olumlu görüş ve tutumların oluşturulması, yaşlı bakımına ilişkin bilgi eksikliklerinin giderilmesi ve bakımın kalitesi açısından yararlı olacaktır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Öğrenci, Hemşire, Yaşlılık, Görüş, Tutum.

Views of Nursing Students About Ageing and Their Attitudes Toward Older People

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Backgroud: Today’s students are tomorrow’s health care professionals. Geriatric age group, which is a permanent need for care for a population formed by the views of students and their attitudes towards old age, it is important to know. Objectives: This study was conducted to determine of nursing students’ views about ageing and their attitudes toward older people. Methods: Nursing students in the first, second, third and fourth year (n = 308) of nursing programme at Ataturk University Faculty of Health Science in academic year 2010- 2011 and accepting take the research were the sample group of this descriptive study. Data were collected using the descriptive information form, the form of views about ageing and the Turkish version of Kogan’s Attitudes towards Old People Scale. Data were evaluated by using frequency, percentage, t test, ANOVA and kruskal-wallis test. Results: It was found that after graduation, the small numbers of the students (4.2%) want to work with older age group and they were perceived ageing as “dependence, passiveness, poverty” and the students’ attitudes toward older people point average is 99.49 ± 11.12. Conclusion: It was found that nursing students’ opinions about ageing are mostly negative, their attitudes toward older people are positive. It would be useful to add the gerontology to undergraduate study curriculum in terms of fulfilling the lack of knowledge concerning this issue and quality of elder care

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Student, Nurse, Ageing, View, Attitude.

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