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- Title
Perception of nursing students about couples' violence: knowledge, beliefs and professional role.
- Authors
Rigol-Cuadra, Assumpció; Galbany-Estragué, Paola; Fuentes-Pumarola, Concepció; Dolors Burjales-Martí, Maria; Rodríguez-Martín, Dolors; Ballester-Ferrando, David
- Abstract
Objectives: to analyse the knowledge, beliefs and perception of the professional role that nursing students have, about exerted violence against women in relationships. Method: a descriptive qualitative study following the ecological model through 16 focus groups realized with 112 students from four nursing courses of four Spanish universities. Results: the analytical categories were: knowledge, professional role, and beliefs about ones behaviour before the victim and the abuser. Students are unfamiliar with the characteristics of abuse, guidelines, protocols and screening questions and demand patterns for specific intervention. They do not identify their own professional role, be it delegated or specialized. Beliefs regarding their behaviour with the victim, not guided by professional criteria, perceive violence as a specific situation and disassociate the prevention of health care. They perceive the abuser as mentally ill, justifying the tolerance or delegation of performances. Conclusions: students define preconceived ideas about couples' violence. Speeches reproduce and reinforce stereotypical myths, values indicative of inadequate training for nursing studies which raises the need to fortify the competencies in relation to intimate couples' violence in the curriculum.
- Subjects
VIOLENCE prevention; INTIMATE partner violence; CLINICAL competence; CURRICULUM planning; FOCUS groups; NURSE-patient relationships; NURSING education; NURSING students; SENSORY perception; PREJUDICES; STATISTICAL sampling; STEREOTYPES; STUDENT attitudes; QUALITATIVE research; OCCUPATIONAL roles; SOCIAL attitudes
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2015, Vol 23, Issue 3, p527
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0104-1169.0357.2584