Attitudes towards HIV/AIDS patients and empathic tendencies: A study of Turkish undergraduate nursing students

Attitudes of First and Fourth Year Nursing Students to HIV/AIDS: A Comparative Study

“…Aktaş Özgül and his colleagues (2014), conducted a study on fear of transmission of fourth grade students are lower than in other classes. 8 This result is similar to our findings. Nazik et al (2012), specify that young nursing students are prominently in a more negative attitude towards HIV/AIDS patients.…”

“…The fact that the students in our study have not developed negative feelings and professional resistance in spite of fear of contagion makes to believe that they have internalized ethical values and adopted a professional approach in addition to Knowledge and attitude, as an important factor related with HIV infection, makes healthcare professionals willingly provide quality and sufficient care. 8,18 In our study, it was determined that there is a strong negative relationship between the willingness of students to give care and AIDS Attitude Scale total points and sub dimension points. Gledovic et al (2015), suggests that health care workers giving care refrain from giving care to individuals with HIV/AIDS due to the fact that they might carry several infectious diseases related with this one.…”

“…2 The most important factor that will prevent prejudices towards HIV/AIDS sufferers and the spread of the disease is informing the society and the healthcare professionals providing this group with healthcare. 8 It was detected in the study that the students have obtained their knowledge from, respectively, schools and teachers, radio and television, newspapers and magazines and, the least, neighbors. This fact shows the importance of schools and teachers in enhancing sensitivity towards HIV/AIDS.…”

“…Female students have also significantly higher empathic tendency than male students. 8 Ouzoni and Nakakis ( 2012), though not having statistical significance, have ascertained that female and older students have more information about and more positive attitude towards HIV/AIDS patients than male students. 10 It is known that some healthcare professionals refuse to give care to HIV/AIDS patients fearing that they will contact the disease.…”

Exploring How to Conduct Infection Prevention and Control Education in Undergraduate Nursing Programs in Korea: Focus Group Interview Analysis

“…Previous research on IPC education has largely divided into studies focused on IPC education strategies utilizing standardized patient, simulation environments, or actual clinical situations for IPC education [7][8][9] and studies focused on the IPC-education elements such as microbiology, hand washing, healthcare-associated infection with standard precautions, preventive measures for medical personnel, and issues on patient immunity such as HIV/ AIDS patients [10][11][12][13][14][15][16].…”