| Summary: | 碩士 === 中山醫學院 === 醫學研究所 === 88 === Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of geriatric nursing program for the nursing student of improving her attitude and behavior intention to the elderly.The tools of this study include questionnaire, physical-psycho-social attitude and the behavior intention scales of the elderly. 406 students(203 non-nursing students,203 nursing students)were chosen randomly, pretest and posttest have been done after 32 hours geriatric nursing program to the nursing students. Only 190 nursing students and 183 non-nursing student were qualified to compare the difference of the intervention of the program. The results reveal that the changes of the attitudes of the elderly are significant improving in nursing students after the intervention of program, and the living status, live with elderly are acutely related to their improvement. Furthermore, the changing of improving of the physical-psycho-social attitude and the behavior intention of the elderly are significantly in nursing students than non-nursing students, birthplace and periods of the time live with elderly are critical factors which related to the behavior intention of the elderly. Correlation of the improvement of physical-psycho-social attitude and the behavior intention of the elderly are significant. Those factors influence the improving attitude of aging and the behavior intention of the elderly are: finishing geriatric nursing program, elderly neighborhood; and the those predictable factor same as above impacts are :finishing geriatric nursing program, willing to live with elderly and the improving attitude of elderly. The results of this study are hopefully to facilitate the revising of the geriatric nursing program and to improve the quality of geriatric nursing care in clinics.
Key word: geriatric nursing program; attitude of aging; behavior
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