Kontakt 2015, 17(3):e138-e141 | DOI: 10.1016/j.kontakt.2015.08.001

Difference in the level of ageist attitudes of nurses and nursing studentsNursing - Original article

Oľga Kabátová, Andrea Botíková*, Alena Uríčková, Jaroslav Slaný
Trnavská univerzita v Trnave, Fakulta zdravotníctva a sociálnej práca, Katedra ošetrovateľstva, Trnava, Slovenská republika

Ageism in nursing is a common phenomenon, which manifests in many ways and negatively affects a patient and her care.
Goal: The goal of quantitative analysis is to find the difference between ageist attitudes among nurses and nursing students.

Methods: The nonprobability sample contained two groups. One group consisted of 126 nurses and the other group consisted of 94 nursing students. The Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA) was used to quantify the stance and the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U-test was used to evaluate the difference between the two groups.

Results: Nurses and nursing students had low to intermediate levels of ageist attitudes according to FSA. Nurses showed higher levels of ageist attitudes compared to nursing students as evaluated by Mann-Whitney U-test.

Conclusion: Ageism is a part of nursing care and it needs to be eliminated. One way how to achieve this is by early awareness of one's own prejudice.

Keywords: Nurse; Senior; Ageism; Nursing; Attitude

Received: April 29, 2015; Revised: June 1, 2015; Accepted: August 5, 2015; Published: September 21, 2015  Show citation

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Kabátová O, Botíková A, Uríčková A, Slaný J. Difference in the level of ageist attitudes of nurses and nursing students. Kontakt. 2015;17(3):e138-141. doi: 10.1016/j.kontakt.2015.08.001.
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