J Nurs Acad Soc.  1974 May;4(2):17-31.

A Comparative Study on Attitude of the Collegiate and Non-Collegiate Nursing Students toward Their Clinical Affiliation in a Mental Hospital

• Kim SY

Abstract

Today, over seventy five percent of nursing in Korea provide a psychiatric experience in the basic curriculum. The psychiatric affiliation presents numerous major problems of adjustment to the student. The importance of positive attitude toward the nursing care of psychiatric patients is recognized by the nursing profession. I have finded out the unfavorable attitude of non-collegiate nursing students toward psychiatric nursing affiliation by previous research. This study was undertaken in response to a felt need to explore the use of several devices which might yield information about attitudes toward psychiatric nursing as a basis for future planning of the program offered at a selected hospital. This study is desinged to meet the following objectives; (1) In order to find out the expressed attitudes of fifty three collegiate nursing students toward their psychiatric affiliation. (2) To compare responses given by selected group of collegiate and noncollegiate nursing students to same questionnaire. (3) To determine the relationship between the attitudes of nursing students toward psychiatric nursing and the type of institutions where experience was obtaind. A questionnaire, a Korean translation of the "Psychiatric Nursing Attitude Questionnaire" by Mildred Elizabeth Fletcher, was administered to fifty-three collegiate nursing students who had completed a four-week psychiatric affiliation in a S hospital psychiatric ward during May 7, 1973 to Dec. 16, 1973. The questionnaire of 100 statements was administered in the following way; CD Part I, Preconceptions, was, given in individual conferences with each subject, during the first few days of their affiliation, and again during the final week of affiliation. The responses to Part I were oral. (2) Part II, Expectations, Part III, Personal Relations, Part IV, Personal Feelings, and Part V, Attitudes and Activities of Patients were given to all of the subjects in a group meeting during the second week of the affiliation, and again, during the fourth week at the termination of the affiliation. Responses te Parts II, III, Iv, and V, were written. Each of the 100 statements of the questionnaire was considered to be either Positive or Negative. A favorable response was assinged the Positive value of 1 and an unfavorable response was assigned the Negative value of 0. The coefficient of correlation was computed between the two sets of scores for the fifty-three nursing students. The mean score, the standard deviation, and the differences in the means on each of the five parts of the questionnaire were computed and the relationships calculated by a t-test. The results of the study were as follows; 1. There was no significant correlation between the two sets of the scores for the fifty-three nursing students during the four-week psychiatric affiliation. (r=0. 36) 2. There was no significant difference in the mean scores between the first and final tests for any of the questionnaire. 3. The Part I, Preconceptions, data indicated collegiate nursing students have positive attitudes in preconceptions than noncollegiate nursing students and preconceptions toward the psychiatric affiliation which affect their psychiatric nursing experience. 4. The Part II, Expectations, data indicated more appropriate expectations of collegiate nursing students related to prepsychiatric affiliation orientation and sufficient theory learning than non- collegiate nursing students. 5. The Part III, Personal relations, data indicated some students have negative attitudes in personal relations with normal people in respect to psychological security and social responsibilities. 6. The Part IV, Personal feelings, data indicated nursing students have psychological insecurity & inappropriateness. 7. The Part V, Attitudes and activities of patients, data indicated collegiate nursing students have more positive attitudes to the psychotic behavior of certain situations due to sufficient theory learning. 8. The data indicated collegiate-nursing students have more positive attitude than noncollegiate nursing students through psychiatric affiliation.

MeSH Terms

Congresses as Topic
Curriculum
Group Processes
Hospitals, Psychiatric*
Humans
Korea
Learning
Nursing Care
Nursing*
Psychiatric Nursing
Surveys and Questionnaires
Social Responsibility
Students, Nursing*