Examination on the effect of gender perception of nursing students of “Women’s Health and Diseases Nursing Course” “Kadın Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Hemşireliği Dersi”nin hemşirelik öğrencileri toplumsal cinsiyet algısına etkisinin incelenmesi

The advancement of the level of education makes the individuals’ point of view towards gender roles modern and equalitarian. Accordingly, determining the attitudes of the youth in college towards gender roles becomes more of an issue in terms of achieving healthy generations. The study had been conducted in order to identify the effect of the course “Women’s Health and Gynecological Diseases” which is included in the undergraduate study of nursing on the gender perception of the students of the nursing department. The study which is descriptive and analytic was conducted on the students who were in their third years in the Nursing Department of a Health College in 2015-2016 academic year and who accepted to participate in the study, between 03 October 2015- 05 January 2016. The population of the study consists of a total of 228 students, who were taking the course “Women’s Health and Gynecological Diseases” given in their third year, fifth semester. Sample selection wasn’t prefered in the study, rather 215 students who volunteered to participate in the study ( Participation Rate: 94.0%) generated the sample of the study. The data was collected with “Personal Information Form” and “Gender Perception Scale”. The students were asked to fill out personal information forms before “Women’s Health and Gynecological Diseases Nursing” course began (before the first lecture) and pre-test was conducted by implementing Gender Perception Scale. Post-test was conducted by asking the students to fill out the same scale after the curriculum of this course was completed (15 week curriculum). When evaluating the data, since it was determined that the scale scores didn’t signify a normal distribution, Wilcoxon Test, Mann-Whitney U Test and Kruskal-Wallis Test were used among the non-parametric tests together with descriptive statistics in data analysis. The average age was identified as 20.73±1.03 and 16.3% of the population as male. The average of the gender perception scores of students prior to the course was 92.17±14.89 (Min 30 – Max 124) while after the completion of the course, the average was 97.21±13.74 (Min 46 – Max 125); it was determined that the course given advanced the average of the gender perception score significantly and the education given was effective in this matter (p<0.01). It may be said that the course “Women’s Health and Gynecological Diseases Nursing” raised awareness about an equalitarian perspective towards gender in the students participating in the study, positively affected the gender perception and the female students participating in the study had a more positive gender perception than male students. Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file . Ozet Egitim duzeyinin yukselmesi bireylerin toplumsal cinsiyet rollerine, cagdas ve esitlikci bir bakis acisi kazandirmaktadir. Bu dogrultuda universite genclerinin toplumsal cinsiyet rollerine iliskin tutumlarinin belirlenmesi, saglikli nesillere ulasma acisindan buyuk onem arz etmektedir. Arastirma, hemsirelik lisans egitim programinda yer alan “Kadin Sagligi ve Hastaliklari Hemsireligi” dersinin hemsirelik bolumu ogrencilerinin toplumsal cinsiyet algilari uzerine etkisini belirlemek amaciyla yapilmistir. Tanimlayici ve analitik tipte olan arastirma, bir Kamu Universitesinin Saglik Yuksekokulu Hemsirelik Bolumu’nde 2015-2016 egitim-ogretim yilinda ucuncu sinifta egitim goren ve arastirmaya katilmayi kabul eden ogrencilere 03 Ekim 2015-05 Ocak 2016 tarihleri arasinda yapilmistir. Arastirmanin evrenini ucuncu sinifta besinci yariyil dersi olan “Kadin Sagligi ve Hastaliklari Hemsireligi" dersini alan toplam 228 ogrenci olusturmustur. Arastirmada orneklem secimine gidilmemis olup, arastirmaya gonullu olan 215 ogrenci ( Katilim Orani: %94.0) calismanin orneklemini olusturmustur. Veriler “Kisisel Bilgi Formu” ve “Toplumsal Cinsiyet Algisi Olcegi” ile toplanmistir. Ogrencilere, “Kadin Sagligi ve Hastaliklari Hemsireligi” dersine baslanmadan once (ilk ders oncesi) kisisel bilgi formu doldurtularak, Toplumsal Cinsiyet Algisi Olcegi uygulanmak sureti ile on test uygulanmistir. Bu dersin konularinin tamamlanmasindan sonra (15 haftalik ders programi) ogrencilere ayni olcek doldurtularak son test uygulanmistir. Verilerin degerlendirilmesinde tanimlayici istatistikin yani sira, olcek puanlarinin normal dagilim gostermedigi belirlendigi icin verilerin analizinde non-parametrik testlerden Wilcoxon test, Mann- Whitney U testi ve Kruskal-Wallis testi kullanilmistir. Ogrencilerin yas ortalamasinin 20.73±1.03 oldugu, %16.3’nun erkek oldugu saptanmistir. Egitim oncesi ogrencilerin toplumsal cinsiyet algi puan ortalamasinin 92.17±14.89 (Min 30 – Max 124) iken egitim sonrasi 97.21±13.74 (Min 46 – Max 125) oldugu, verilen egitimin toplumsal algi puan ortalamasini anlamli olarak yukselttigi ve verilen egitimin istatistiki olarak anlamli duzeyde (p<0.01) etkili oldugu saptanmistir. Kadin Sagligi ve Hastaliklari Hemsireligi dersinin, calismaya katilan ogrencilere toplumsal cinsiyete iliskin esitlikci bakis acisi bilincini kazandirdigi ve toplumsal cinsiyet algisini olumlu yonde etkiledigi, calismaya katilan kiz ogrencilerin erkek ogrencilere gore daha olumlu toplumsal cinsiyet algisina sahip oldugu soylenebilir.