Assessing ageist behaviours in undergraduate nursing students using the <scp>R</scp>elating to <scp>O</scp>lder <scp>P</scp>eople <scp>E</scp>valuation (<scp>ROPE</scp>) survey

Frost, Jane; Ranse, Kristen; Grealish, Laurie

doi:10.1111/ajag.12260

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“…A recent Australian study on health‐care quality demonstrated an example of subtle, entrenched ageism, the under‐prescribing of cardiovascular medications to aged care residents at high risk of cardiovascular disease . Addressing health system prejudices towards older people requires explicitly identifying discriminatory attitudes and behaviours which may occur in our own or colleagues’ practice, in parallel with encouraging inclusive and positive student attitudes towards older people.…”

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Development of the Australian Ageing Semantic Differential, a new instrument for measuring Australian medical student attitudes towards older people

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Objective This study outlines development of an instrument for measuring attitudes of medical students towards older people, the Australian Ageing Semantic Differential (AASD). Methods Words for AASD scales were derived from the reflections of 151 third year medical students attending two Australian medical schools. A pilot study of the AASD was then undertaken with third year students at another medical school to confirm usability and reliability of the instrument. After slight modification, a larger study using the AASD was then undertaken of medical students attending the three institutions, in order to obtain sufficient data for exploratory factor analysis. Results n = 321 (response rate 73%). Mean AASD score 73.2/114. Cronbach's α = 0.86. There was no evidence of sequence bias. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) demonstrated four factors: Instrumentality; Personal Appeal; Experience; and Sociability. A lower mean instrumentality subscore for all students and a higher mean experience subscore for female students were noted. Conclusions The AASD instrument proved internally reliable, and its use was generalisable to different groups of medical students. Its design ensured construct and face validity, and responses were not affected by sequencing bias. This study has revealed positive student attitudes towards older people. Variation in attitudes requires further investigation.

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Development of the Australian Ageing Semantic Differential, a new instrument for measuring Australian medical student attitudes towards older people

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“…With one exception, the AJA papers in this section serve to illustrate the nature and scope of ageist beliefs amongst health‐care professionals. The eight papers appeared between 1989 and 2016 and variously describe the attitudes and behaviours of nurses, either students or practicing nursing samples across a range of settings (three papers ), gerontology researchers, practitioners and policy makers (one paper ), social work students (one paper ), practicing psychologists (one paper ) and a diverse group of health professionals (health promotion workers, nurses, psychologists, social workers, doctors and physiotherapists (one paper )). The final paper in this section, an opinion piece written in 1999 by Gething , contains recommendations regarding improving attitudes for nurses working in aged care which are still pertinent today.…”

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“…Two papers focusing on the nursing population used survey measures to assess attitudes to ageing. Of these, one paper used the Reactions to Ageing Questionnaire (RAQ) as well as the Facts about Ageing Quiz and the Aging Semantic Differential to assess the relationship between attitudes to self‐ageing and misconceptions/stereotyping about older people .…”

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“…In addition, the 2016 study by Frost et al. cited evidence that negative attitudes to older people increase and intensify during nursing training and become established during clinical placements. However, despite studies that showed improvements could be made by utilising educational strategies which made ageist attitudes and behaviour ‘explicit’, nursing courses remained underdeveloped in this regard.…”

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Butler's three constructs of ageism in Australasian Journal on Ageing

Malta

Doyle

2016

Australas J Ageing

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“…Rathnayake reported nearly half of nursing students in a Sri Lankan nursing school had negative attitude to older adults [5]. In one Australian university, 87.5% nursing students admitted negative behaviors to older adults [11]. Compared to other country, the English article about medical students' attitude towards the elderly in China is insufficient, and the prevalence of ageism among Chinese medical students remains unclear.…”

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Psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Fraboni Scale of Ageism: evidence from medical students sample

Fan

Zhao

Liu

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Background The increasing of older adults has led to enormous demand for medical care. However, as a group with unique needs and characteristics, older adults are often discriminated against in the medical field. In this paper, we aimed to translate the Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA) into Chinese and examine its construct validity, content validity, and reliability in Chinese mainland medical students. In order to evaluate the prevalence of ageism in Chinese medical students and prompt medical college to adopt necessary teaching methods to mitigate ageism in medical students.Methods By Brislin's translation guidelines, FSA was translated to Chinese. The convenient sampling method was used to select samples for this survey, including 1,974 students from two medical schools in central and north China. Construct validity was verified by the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The content validity index (CVI) was used to assess content validity. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were used to estimate reliability.Results The alpha coefficients for FSA (Chinese version) was 0.81 and ICC was 0.87. The CVI was 0.93. Three factors were identified by exploratory factor analysis explaining 34.84% of the total variance and a three-factor model was confirmed to fit by confirmatory factor analysis.Conclusions FSA (Chinese version) is a reliable and valid scale for measuring discrimination degree against the older adults in Chinese medical students.

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Assessing ageist behaviours in undergraduate nursing students using the Relating to Older People Evaluation (ROPE) survey

Cited by 46 publications

References 11 publications

Development of the Australian Ageing Semantic Differential, a new instrument for measuring Australian medical student attitudes towards older people

Development of the Australian Ageing Semantic Differential, a new instrument for measuring Australian medical student attitudes towards older people

Butler's three constructs of ageism in Australasian Journal on Ageing

Psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Fraboni Scale of Ageism: evidence from medical students sample

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