Nurse's Attitude Toward the Aged: Relationship to Nursing Care

Hatton, Jean

doi:10.3928/0098-9134-19770501-06

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“…Kirschling and Pierce (1982) observed nurses and suggested that the less negatively they perceived the patient, the more time they spent with him or her. Hatton (1977) found that nurses with more favorable attitudes toward the elderly tended to exhibit a higher percentage of positive interactions with elderly patients than did nurses with less positive attitudes. Heller, Bausell, and Ninos (1984) determined that nurses with negative attitudes toward patients were likely to have a custodial-care orientation.…”

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Health care professionals’ perceptions of seriously ill women

Hardin¹,

Hailey

1993

Health Care for Women International

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Physicians, psychologists, and nurses read one of four vignettes describing a woman who had received one of four diagnoses--breast cancer, lung cancer, heart attack, or severe burn--and indicated on the Profile of Mood States (McNair, Lorr, & Droppleman, 1971) how they perceived the woman had been feeling during the past week. They then answered 10 questions about the woman's recovery and about their own anticipated behaviors while interacting with her. A number of differences emerged between professional groups in terms of their expectations for patients regardless of diagnosis. In addition, respondents held different emotional expectations for the patient, based solely on her diagnosis. These results support the need for training health care professionals to recognize psychological distress in, and appropriately refer, seriously ill women.

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Health care professionals’ perceptions of seriously ill women

Hardin¹,

Hailey

1993

Health Care for Women International

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“…leading to discrimination in the workplace (McCann & Giles, 2002), suboptimal doctor-patient communication and relationships (Greene, Adelman, Charon, & Hoffman, 1986), or lower empathy, belittling treatment, and encouragement of dependency by nursing staff in care homes (Bagshaw & Adams, 1985;Hatton, 1977;Ryan, Giles, Bartolucci, & Henwood, 1986). For a systematic review of the impact of ageist behaviours in a range of areas, see the work of Pasupathi and Loeckenhoff (2002).…”

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The perceived credibility of older adults as witnesses and its relation to ageism

Mueller‐Johnson

Toglia

Sweeney

et al. 2007

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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In experiment 1, 267 undergraduates read a case summary and witness statement. Sex and age of the witness (49, 69, 79 or 89 years) were varied. Participants rated the witness's perceived convincingness, confidence, quality of observation, accuracy, honesty, competence, memory, suggestibility, and cognitive functioning. As well as an age effect for honesty, age by sex interactions were observed for several characteristics, particularly for comparisons of the 79-year-olds versus the 49-year-olds, and 89-year-olds versus the 49-year-olds. In experiment 2, 94 undergraduates read the same testimony given by a 79-year-old male or female witness, and completed the Fraboni Scale of Ageism and the Aging Semantic Differential. Participants who evidenced stronger aging stereotypes on these measures rated the witness less favorably than did participants who were less prejudiced. This experiment is the first to show a link between perceived credibility of older adults and ageist attitudes. Practical applications regarding how older witnesses are viewed by jurors, and the criminal justice system more generally, are discussed.

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“…Such negative stereotyping, common in American society, is also found among professional health care providers (Reed et al, 1992). A number of studies have shown that attitudes of student nurses and nursing care providers are generally rather negative (Benson, 1982;Carmel, Cwikel, & Galinsky, 1992;Eddy, 1986;Greenhill, 1983;Hatton, 1977).…”

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