The Effect of Disaster Nursing Course on Nursing Students' Perceptions of Disaster Awareness, Preparedness, Response SelfEfficacy
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2024
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Ankara Üniversitesi
Abstract
Nurses are the first health professionals to interact with people affected by disasters. The success of this
interaction depends on the outcome ofthe process which is affected by the disaster management knowledge
and skills of the nurse. This study was conducted to examine the effect of disaster nursing course on nursing
students' disaster awareness, preparedness and intervention self-efficacy perceptions. The study was
conducted in X University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing in the fall semester of 2021-
2022 in a one-group quasi-experimental study design with pre-test post-test design. The population of the
study consisted of senior students (n: 60) studying in the nursing department, while the sample was not
selected (n: 43). "Personal information form", "Disaster Awareness Scale", "Disaster Preparedness Scale"
and " Disaster Response Self-Efficacy Scale" were used to collect the data. The research data were collected
in the first week (pre-test) and the last week (post-test) of the disaster nursing elective course. While 53.5%
of the participants were between 22-23 years old, 55.8% of them stated that they had experienced a real
disaster. It was found that there was a statistically significant difference between the pre-test and post-test
scores of the participants' pre-disaster awareness dimension, post-disaster awareness dimension and
disaster awareness perception scale (p<0.05). A statistically significant difference was found between the
pre-test and post-test scores of the participants from the disaster preparedness scale, disaster response
self-efficacy scale (p<0.05). It was observed that the disaster nursing course positively improved nursing
students' disaster awareness, disaster preparedness and disaster response self-efficacy perceptions
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Awareness, Course, Disaster, Disaster Response, Nursing Students, Preparedness