Affiliation:
1. ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
2. KIRIKKALE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Abstract
The aim of the study is to determine the correlation between attitudes of Turkish nursing students toward gender roles and their perceptions of caring behaviors. The study was conducted based on cross-sectional, descriptive and relational design. First- and fourth-year nursing undergraduate students studying at four state universities located in a large city in Türkiye were included in the study (n=541). Three forms including “Descriptive Characteristics Form”, “The Gender Roles Attitude Scale” and “Caring Assessment Questionnaire” were used as data collection tools. The students' GRAS mean score was 147.12±15.47 and the highest subscale mean was detected in the egalitarian gender role subscale. The students' Care-Q total mean score was 4.99±1.34 and the highest subscale mean was observed in the “Monitors and Follows Through” subscale. As a result of the study, it was observed that there was a statistically significant positive and very weak correlation between the nursing students' caring behaviors and attitudes toward gender roles. The results indicated that the students participating in the study had an egalitarian attitude and as the egalitarian attitude increased, their caring assessment behaviors also increased.
Reference52 articles.
1. Akkaş İ. 2019. Cinsiyet ve toplumsal cinsiyet kavramları çerçevesinde ortaya çıkan toplumsal cinsiyet ayrımcılığı. Ekev Akad Derg, ICOAEF Özel Sayısı: 97-118. DOI: 10.17753/Ekev1038.
2. Aksan HAD, Ergin I, Hassoy H, Durusoy R, Çiçeklioğlu M. 2011. Müfredata eklenen bir dersin ikinci sınıf tıp öğrencilerinin kadına yönelik şiddetle ilgili bilgi ve tutumlarına etkilerinin değerlendirilmesi. Turkish J Pub Health, 9(3): 144-156. DOI: 10.20518/tjph.173060.
3. Başar F, Demirci N. 2018. Attitudes of nursing students toward gender roles: a cross-sectional study. Contemp Nurs, 54(3): 333-344. DOI: 10.1080/10376178.2018.1504623.
4. Birimoğlu C, Ayaz S. 2015. Nursing students’ perceptions of caring behaviors. J Hacettepe Univ Fac Nurs, 2(3): 40-48.
5. Boniol M, McIsaac M, Xu L, Wuliji T, Diallo K, Campbell J. 2019. Gender equity in the health workforce: analysis of 104 countries (No. WHO/HIS/HWF/Gender/WP1/2019.1). World Health Organization. URL: https://www.who.int/publications/ (accessed date: May 10, 2023).