ST?GMA TENDENCY OF THE 1. and 4. CLASS NURS?NG STUDENTS

Burcu Ceylan () and Hasan Sev?n?k ()
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Burcu Ceylan: HEALTH SC?ENCES
Hasan Sev?n?k: HEALTH SC?ENCES

No 4306977, Proceedings of Business and Management Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Aim: This study was conducted to determine first and fourth- year nursing students? tendency to social stigmatization. It is thought that if health care professionals have positive and similar attitudes towards the societies they live in, they can positively change the public?s attitudes towards the individuals or groups in that society. Of the health care professionals, nurses play an important role in changing the attitudes of the society. They are responsible for protecting and developing the mental health of society, within the psychiatry team. Therefore, it is important to identify future nurses? stigmatization tendency and evaluate the effect of undergraduate education on this tendency.Methods: This descriptive study was conducted with the participation of the first-year (n=157) and fourth-year (n=121) nursing who studied in the department of nursing in a faculty of health sciences at a university during the 2015?2016 academic year and agreed to participate in the study. The data were collected using an information form developed by the researcher and the Stigmatization Scale. The data were evaluated using numbers and percentages, the independent samples were statistically analyzed using the t-test, and all findings were taken as significant at ?p

Keywords: Nursing student; stigma; tendency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2016-11
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 4th Business & Management Conference, Istanbul, Nov 2016, pages 36-43

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