Abstract
Purpose: This study examines final-year undergraduate nursing students to determine the educational needs for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), knowledge of COVID-19, attitude toward COVID-19 patient care, and nursing intention toward COVID-19 patients. Methods: A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 21 April to 6 May 2022. The participants included 144 final-year (4th year) undergraduate nursing students in Gangwon-do, Daegu-si, and Chungcheong-do. The SPSS/WIN 21.0 program was used to analyze the data; Pearson’s correlation coefficients and multiple regression were further performed. Results: The attitude toward COVID-19 patient care (β = 0.38, p = 0.001), a cohabitant formerly infected with COVID-19, and the intention to study COVID-19 patient care (β = 0.16, p = 0.018) were found to influence nursing intention toward COVID-19 patients. These variables had a 27% explanatory power for nursing intention (F = 14.23, p < 0.001). Conclusions: To foster undergraduate nursing students’ nursing intention toward patients with emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), a program focused on cultivating a positive attitude toward EID patient care should be developed and implemented. The curriculum should further include education on EID patient care.
Funder
National Research Foundation of Korea government
Subject
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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