THE IMPACT OF AN ADULT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON THE ATTITUDES OF NURSING PERSONNEL TOWARD THE AGED.
Contributors: University of Southern Mississippi.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Gerontology.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if an adult educational program could improve the attitudes of nursing personnel employed in long-term care facilities toward the elderly as measured by subject pretest and posttest scores on Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz #2 (FAQ #2) and Kogan's Attitudes Toward Old People Scale (OP Scale).

The study employed an experimental design and all subjects were randomly assigned to the control or experimental group. After the subjects were presented with the FAQ #2 and the OP Scale, the experimental group participated in a five hour adult educational program which was designed to improve attitudes toward the elderly. Both groups were posttested with the FAQ #2 and the OP Scale.

In contrast to what was suggested in the literature, the nursing personnel in this study were found to be either neutral or positive in their attitude toward the elderly. Two other unexpected findings were (1) that there were no significant differences in attitude toward the elderly between skilled facility nursing employees and dual facility nursing employees and (2) that the experimental and control groups did not significantly differ in attitude toward the old.

The results of this study tended to contradict several of the popularly held notions concerning the attitudes of nursing personnel toward the elderly and education's potential role in altering these attitudes.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-03, Section: B, page: 0993.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI, 1985.

School code: 0211.