The effect of disability empathy activity on the attitude of nursing students towards disabled people: a pilot study

Background: Nurses care for disabled people in society. Objectives: The aim of this experimental study was to investigate the effect of disability empathy activities on strengthening the positive attitudes of nursing students towards disabled people. Design: An experimental study. Pretest-Posttest c...

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Published in:Contemporary nurse : a journal for the Australian nursing profession 2017-02, Vol.53 (1), p.82-93
Main Authors: Geçkil, Emine, Kaleci, Elanur, Cingil, Dilek, Hisar, Filiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Attitude of Health Personnel
attitude strengthening
attitudes towards the disabled person
Disabled Persons
Empathy
empathy activity
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nursing
nursing student
Pilot Projects
Students, Nursing - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Turkey
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Summary:Background: Nurses care for disabled people in society. Objectives: The aim of this experimental study was to investigate the effect of disability empathy activities on strengthening the positive attitudes of nursing students towards disabled people. Design: An experimental study. Pretest-Posttest control group arrangement was used. Methods: This research has been conducted with 116 nursing students (53 experimental and 63 control). The data were collected with "Attitudes Towards Disabled Persons Scale" (ATDP). Results: Before the experiment, there was no significant difference between ATDP scores of experimental and control groups (p > 0.05). After the experiment, second ATDP scores of experimental group (66.81 ± 14.27) were found to be significantly higher than the scores of control group (59.02 ± 11.71) (p = 0.002). After six months, third ATDP scores of experimental group (63.58 ± 13.46) were also found to be higher than the scores of control group (58.43 ± 11.03) (p = 0.025). Conclusions: Empathy activities applied to understand disabled people affected the attitudes of student nurses towards disabled people positively.
ISSN:1037-6178
1839-3535
DOI:10.1080/10376178.2017.1292143