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Attitudes of Nursing Senior Students Towards the Use of Computers in Healthcare and Related Factors
(Association of Executive Nurses, 2022) Söylemez, B.A.; Özgül, E.; Akyol, M.A.; Küçükgüçlü, Ö.
Aim: This study was conducted to determine the attitudes of nursing senior students towards the use of computers in healthcare and related factors. Method: The descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 162 senior nursing students in a faculty of nursing at a university between June and July 2021. Data were collected with the “Participant Information Form” and “Attitudes toward Computers in Healthcare Assessment Scale.” The SPSS 25.0 package program was used to evaluate the data. Socio-demographic data were given as numbers, mean, percentages, and standard deviation. Number, mean, percentage distributions, independent groups t-test, Mann Whitney-U test, One-way ANOVA test, and Pearson correlation test were used to analyze the data. Results: In this research, 67.9% of the 162 students were females, and the mean age was 22.43±1.50 years. The mean score of the students on the scale was 15.65±8.91. Status of owning a computer (t=2.729, p<0.01), frequency of computer usage (u=637.500, p<0.01), level of knowledge in using a computer (F=13.410, p<0.001), and status of computer use in nursing practices (t=4.244, p<0.001) were found to affect attitudes of nursing students towards the use of computers in healthcare. Conclusion: Senior nursing students were found to have a moderate attitude towards using computers in healthcare. Adopting more positive attitudes towards this area will increase the quality of nursing care and provide easier access to clinical data and charts. © 2022 The Authors.
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Effectiveness of the Aged Simulation Suit on Undergraduate Nursing Students' Attitudes and Empathy Toward Older Adults: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(Elsevier Ltd, 2024) Akpınar, Söylemez, B.; Özgül, E.; Akyol, M.A.; Küçükgüçlü, Ö.
Aim: This study aims to investigate the efficacy of the aged simulation suit on undergraduate nursing students' attitudes and empathy toward older adults. Background: A new approach to teaching to enhance nursing students' attitudes toward and empathy for older adults involves the use of an aging simulation suit. Design: This systematic review and meta-analysis seeks to determine the efficacy of the aged simulation suit on the attitudes and empathy of undergraduate nursing students toward older adults. This protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis was registered as CRD 42023393879 on the PROSPERO database. Methods: In February-March 2023, a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled and quasi-experimental studies was conducted in accordance with the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. Population, Intervention, Control, Outcomes, Study Design (PICOS) structure was used for search strategy. Databases CINAHL, Cochrane Library, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science, as well as ULAKBIM, Turkish Medline, Turkiye Klinikleri, and YOK National Thesis Center, were searched for the articles. The Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tools were used to evaluate the methodological quality of a study and the extent to which its design, conduct, and analysis addressed the possibility of bias. Results: The meta-analyses of attitudes toward older adults included six studies (including 535 nursing students). The intervention group's attitudes toward older adults were found to be similar to those of the control group (SMD: 15.84, Z= 1.98, p= 0.05). The subgroup analyses revealed similarities between intervention group's and the control group's mean score on attitudes toward older adults (SMD: 4.85, Z=0.70, p=0.48, for RCT; SMD: 23.05, Z= 2.02, p=0.04, for quasi-experimental). Three studies (involving 207 nursing students) revealed significantly higher mean empathy score for the control group compared with the intervention group following the intervention (SMD: 7.08, Z=4.82, p=0.00001). The subgroup analyses revealed statistically significantly higher mean level of empathy for the control group compared with the intervention group was after the intervention (SMD: 7.49, Z=3.15, p=0.002, for RCT; SMD: 6.83, Z= 3.65, p=0.0003, for quasi-experimental). Conclusions: Nursing students should be aware of older adults’ feelings and experiences aging-related changes and aged simulation interventions can be a useful intervention to allow students to empathize with an older adult. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd