Assessment of Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Related to Physiological Changes of Elderly People in El-Azhar Univeristy at Assuit City, Egypt. | ||||
| Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal | ||||
| Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 20.0 - Serial Number 3, March 2020, Page 1-11 PDF (1014.26 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/asnj.2020.88452 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Fatma Elzhraa Ahmed Hassan1; Nermeen Mahmoud Abd El-Aziz2; Saieda Abd-El Hameed Abd-ELaziz3 | ||||
| 1Nursing Specialist of Nursing Instantiation, El-Azhar University, Assuit City, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Assistant Professor of Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assuit University, Egypt. | ||||
| 3Lecturer of Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assuit University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The study aimed to assess the students' knowledge and attitudes related to physiological changes of elderly people in El-Azhar University at Assuit city, Egypt. Design: A descriptive research design was utilized. Setting: This study conducted in two faculties (Education and Shariaa and low) at El-azahr University. The total sample size was 363 female students who were selected by random sample from two faculties in El-Azhar University at Assuit City. Three tools were used, tool 1: Students' socio-demographic characteristic and education background questionnaire, tool II: facts on aging quiz 2 (FAQZ) and tool III: attitude toward old people scale (ATOP). Results: 44.6% of students participants had fair knowledge, 70.2% of students participants had negative attitude, also there was a significant positive correlation between knowledge score and attitude score (r =0.114 & p = 0.029), and there was a significant positive correlation between their ages and knowledge score (r = 0.134& p = 0.011). Conclusion Majority of students had a fair score of knowledge related to physiological changes which occur to the elderly people however; the majority of them had a negative attitude toward elderly people. Recommendation: an educational program to raise the level of knowledge and attitude related to physiological changes of elderly people is needed. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Physiological Changes; Elderly; Knowledge & Attitude | ||||
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