Attitudes of health professionals working in a university hospital towards ageism

Association of nurses' level of knowledge and attitudes to ageism toward older adults: Cross‐sectional study

“…The findings that nurses working in a university-affiliated hospital had significantly more knowledge hold fewer negative attitudes and showed less negative ageism toward older adults than nurses in public hospitals are consistent with previous research studies (Oral, Gunay, & Cetinkaya, 2018;Schroyen et al, 2016). This finding could be explained by the higher number of nurses holding master's degrees in the university-affiliated hospital compared to the public hospital in this study.…”

Attitudes of Medical Faculty Students Towards Ageism, a cross-sectional study from Kayseri

“…In this study, there was no significant relationship between the family's economic status and AAS scores. In the study of Oral et al, it has been shown that healthcare workers with better economic status have more positive attitudes and Uğur and Hendekçi found no significant relationship between the economic situation and the AAS scores in their work in the nursing home staff and also in the compilation of Samra et al with medical students and doctors, similar to our study, no significant relationship was found between the economic situation and AAS scores (19,29,30). This may be due to the questioning of the economic situation of the student's family.…”

“…In this study, the sub-dimension of restricting the life of the elderly were found significantly higher in women. As in our study group, it has been shown in some similar studies that female students have more positive attitudes towards the elderly, in addition to this, there are studies in the literature that show that men have more positive attitudes, and there are also studies indicating that gender and elderly discrimination are not related (13,15,(27)(28)(29). It can be thought that female students have more positive attitudes towards the elderly because they are under the influence of the roles attributed to gender in our society and they have responsibilities towards home, work and relatives during their education years.…”

“…In the literature, similar to our study, a significant relationship did not shown between the parents' educational and AAS scores (12,13,16). In fact, with the increasing education level of their parents, attitudes towards the elderly were expected to increase as an effect of education, because Oral et al had shown that those with a high level of education have a positive attitude towards the elderly (29). This situation suggests that the education level of families was not related to their children's attitudes towards elderly individuals.…”

“…Interestingly, Soyuer et al found the sub-dimension of restricting the life of the elderly to be low in those with extended family structure, similar to our study (13). Oral et al found that the study of health workers in the same Faculty of Medicine restricting the life of the elderly and the total scale score was significantly lower in the extended family structure (29). In this study, students in extended family structure stated that they lived with elderly individuals at a significantly higher rate and perhaps as a result of this they may be more affected by the health, economic and social problems of elderly family members and as a result they may have adopted a negative attitude towards restricting the life of the elderly.…”