Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Research-Development: Does Taking Research Course Make a Difference?
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www.internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org Original Article Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Research-Development: Does Taking Research Course Make a Difference? Ozum Erkin, PhD, RN Research Assistant, Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Department of Public Health Nursing, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey Aynur Uysal Toraman, PhD, RN Professor, Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Department of Public Health Nursing, BornovaIzmir, Turkey Hatice Simsek, PhD student, RN Research Assistant, Ege University Faculty Of Nursing, Department Of Public Health Nursing, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey Ayla Bayik Temel, PhD, RN Professor, Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Department of Public Health Nursing, BornovaIzmir, Turkey Correspondence: Ozum Erkin, PhD, Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Public Health Nursing Department, Izmir, Turkey, E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Objectives: To compare awareness of and attitudes to research and participation in research activities between nursing students taking a nursing research course and those not taking the course. Methods: A quantitative descriptive-comparative study was conducted in a nursing department of a university in Aegean Region in Turkey between 16 November and 11 December 2015. Totally 860 students were enrolled the study. Of the 380 students took a research course, and 480 did not take course agreed to participate. No sample selection was performed. The participation rate was 60% (n:522). Results: The mean age of the students was 20.72±0.95 years, 86.3% of the students were female (n=451). More than half (63.4%) of the students taking a research course and 34.5% of the nurses not taking it reported that they participated in a scientific meetings. A significantly higher rate of the students taking the course participated in scientific meetings (χ2=43.12, p=.000), involvement in a research activity (χ2= 6.55, p=.001), participated in research as a subject (χ2=5.90, p=.019) and collected data on behalf of a researcher (χ2=5.99, p=.016). The students taking the course got the total mean score 121.49±7.30 for the scale and the mean item score 4.19±0.53. Those not taking the course got the mean total score 120.25±6.6 for the scale and the mean item score 4.14±0.54. The former group of the students received higher scores for awareness of and attitudes to research without a significant difference (U=3.219; p:0.33). Conclusions: Both groups of the students are similar in terms of their awareness of and attitudes to research and advances in nursing. However, a higher rate of the students taking a research course actively contributed to research by joining scientific meetings and research activities and collecting data for another researcher’s study.
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