Evaluating knowledge and attitudes scales for the care of older adults among nursing students in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding nursing students' knowledge about and attitudes toward older adults' using context-specific survey instruments can help to identify and design effective learning and teaching materials to improve the care for persons 60 years and above. However, there are no validated instruments to examine nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward the care for older adults in the African context. The study aimed to evaluate the items on the Knowledge about Older Patients Quiz and Kogan's Attitudes towards Old People Scale suitable for the African context.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted using second-and third-year nursing students from two public Nursing Training Institutions in Ghana. Using Sahin's rule of sample size estimate of at least 150 p

SUBMITTER: Abudu-Birresborn D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942360 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature