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Attitude of Student Nurse's Towards People with Disability
Bachelor 's Thesis
Degree programme in Nursing
General Nursing
2011

Olasoji Awoyera

ATTITUDE OF STUDENT
NURSES’ TOWARD PEOPLE
WITH DISABILITIES
2

BACHELOR´S THESIS | ABSTRACT
TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Degree programme in Nursing| General Nursing
Completion of the thesis| Total number of pages 48
Instructors Heikki Ellilä and Mari Lahti
Olasoji Awoyera TURUN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU THESIS
The purpose of this study was to review the attitude of nursing students towards people with disabilities in the western world and compare this with the pilot study from Africa for possibility of cultural differences and demographical variables.
A systematic review of the previous studies were observed (n=6).The pilot study was conducted with 60 students in Ghana. A questionnaire (Interaction with Disabled Person Scale) was filled out by the students and statistical analysis; frequency, percentage, means and standard deviation were measured.
The findings revealed that the students still had negative attitude towards people with disabilities even in a different cultural background (74.76 ± 11.22). In the pilot study, no significant difference was found in age, gender. Slight different in educational level but significant differences in contact with people with disabilities, how often are they in contact and to whom do they have contact.
The study showed that there is existence of negative attitude among the nursing students regardless of cultural background. Further studies should be carried out on this and quick intervention should be put in place to improve the students’ attitude to meet up with the continuous growing in the number disabled people.

KEYWORDS:
Disabilities,nursingstudents,attitudes
TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES THESIS | Olasoji Awoyera
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CONTENT
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 6
1 INTRODUCTION 7
2 BACKGROUND 9
2.1 Disability overview 9
2.2 Attitude


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