Improving Attitudes and Knowledge Toward Organ Donation Among Nursing Students.

Whisenant, Debra P.; Woodring, Barbara

This study explored how an educational intervention related to organ donation affected the knowledge and attitude of a randomized two group sample of baccalaureate nursing students. A convenience sample of 101 subjects in the experimental group and 83 subjects in the control group were asked to complete a pretest. One week later the experimental group attended a one hour education intervention. Two weeks after intervention the pretest questionnaire was administered as a post test to the experimental and control groups. The introduction of specific education strategies improved the attitudes and knowledge base of the experimental group. SPSS results indicated a 40% increase in knowledge and an 8.5% increase in attitudes in the experimental group. Post­intervention knowledge was the sole significant predictor of post-intervention attitude scores. Results support nurse educator's use of a short term educational intervention as a means to improve knowledge and attitudes towards donation among nursing students.

UNITED States; COLLEGE students; NURSING students; ANALYSIS of covariance; ANALYSIS of variance; CONCEPTUAL structures; ORGAN donation; CURRICULUM; NURSES; NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REINFORCEMENT (Psychology); STATISTICAL sampling; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SCALES (Weighing instruments); STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; STUDENT attitudes; T-test (Statistics); TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; MULTIPLE regression analysis; OCCUPATIONAL roles; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; PRE-tests & post-tests; CONTROL groups; EDUCATIONAL outcomes; REPEATED measures design; THEORY of reasoned action; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1

1548-923X

Academic Journal

10.1515/1548-923X.2404