WHAT STUDENT NURSES KNOW AND THINK ABOUT THE WELL-BEING OF SAUDI ARABIA'S OLD
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student, nurses, well-being, Saudi Arabia's old
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This study aims to To describe the attitudes and knowledge of nursing students in care of older people in Saudi Arabia, A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was carried out at five academic levels of nursing students’ knowledge and attitudes towards the care of older people at three major universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, The mean age of the respondents was 21.2 years. The majority (82.9% n=469) of the nursing students were single, while nearly 16.1 % (n=91) were married, 0.7 % (n=4) were divorced and 0.4% (n=2) were widowed. Tables 1 and 2 illustrate the distribution of students by marital status and number of children, In this study students displayed a lack of basic knowledge of ageing (physical and behavioural aspects of ageing) on The Facts on Ageing Quiz 2 (FAQ2). The mean score on the quiz for the Saudi BSN programme was 11.13 (46.37%). According to Palmore (1988), on average, undergraduate students score 14 (56%) and nurses in practice score 16.5 (66%). When the mean FAQ score of 11.13 achieved by Saudi BSN programme students was compared with that achieved by nursing students in other studies, the mean score in this study was very low.
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