A Attitudes toward Health Protection and Disease Prevention among Nursing Students in Baghdad City
Attitudes toward Health Protection and Disease Prevention among Nursing Students in Baghdad City
Objectives: This research aimed for studying the effectiveness of attitudes toward health protection on diseases prevention among nursing students, as well as to find out relationships between (SDCv. and SES) and an overall evaluation concerning health protection, and diseases prevention.
Methods: A non-probability (Convenient sample) of (150) nursing students were randomly selected from Nursing College / Baghdad, in relative of different stages. A questionnaire was formed for the purpose of the study, it was comprised of two main parts which deal with nursing students attitudes toward health protection, and diseases prevention with negative and positive items, as well as demographical characteristics of nursing students. It was taking into account the views of the experts on the scoping study stages, (Validity) agreement, as well as reliability coefficient index resulted came under the scale Alpha (Cronbach).
Results: The study results were shows that most nursing students have good evaluation attitudes toward health protection in general, as well as attitudes toward diseases prevention and that either with positive or negative items. It was confirmed that no significant differences at P>0.05 between attitudes toward health protection and “SDCv. ", exception of gender, had highly significant differences at P<0.01 concerning attitudes toward disease prevention Finally, a study proved too highly significant effectiveness attitudes toward health protection on diseases prevention through analysis of the long term trend by linear regression equation at P<0.000.
Recommendation: This study recommended implementing a health instructional program focusing on critical related issues to health protection, and diseases prevention widening on others university students in different fields of sciences.
Keywords: Attitudes Health Protection, Attitudes Diseases Prevention, nursing Students.
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