TY  - JOUR
T1  - Studying the Nurses' and Nursing Students' Attitudes towards the Phenomenon of Elderly
A1  - Georgios Savva
A1  - Evridiki Papastavrou
A1  - Andreas Charalambous
A1  - Stavros Vryonides
A1  - Anastasios Merkouris
JF  - Journal of Integrative Nursing and Palliative Care
JO  - J Integr Nurs Palliat Care
SN  - 3006-5550
Y1  - 2023
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
DO  - 10.51847/DkBR8F3IGx
SP  - 6
EP  - 10
N2  - Considering the ever-increasing population of the elderly, the nurses' and nursing students' attitudes toward the elderly and how to care for them are very important. The current study aimed to investigate the nurses' and nursing students' attitudes toward the elderly. In the current study, which was of a descriptive-analytical type, a total of 160 nurses and nursing students were selected based on purpose-based sampling and investigated. The data collection tool was a two-part questionnaire including demographic information and the Kogan scale of attitude towards the elderly. SPSS version 21 statistical software and Pearson correlation tests, one-way analysis of variance, and t-tests were used for analysis. In all cases, the significance level was defined as less than 0.05. The average score of the total attitude of the research units towards old age was 110.88 out of 204. 93.1% of the samples had a neutral attitude, 5% had a positive attitude, and 1.9% had a negative attitude. A statistically significant relationship was observed between age and attitude (p
UR  - https://journalinpc.com/article/studying-the-nurses39-and-nursing-students39-attitudes-towards-the-phenomenon-of-elderly-dcnd5ck5ve0tnjg
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