Nurses' Attitudes toward Substance Misusers. I. Surveys

Howard, Matthew O.; Chung, Sulki S.

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“…This finding is contrary to the findings of Howard & Chung, 2000. Their findings showed that negative attitudes have been found in a significant number of nursing population since the 1960s and 1970s, and although the proportion of nurses with pessimistic attitudes appeared to lessen throughout later decades, negative attitudes still exist today (Howard & Chung, 2000). Chung, J., Changh, J., Yeung, R., Wan, R. & Ho, S. T. (2003) revealed that nurses working in local emergency rooms in Hong Kong do exhibit negative attitude when working with alcoholic patients.…”

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Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Care of Clients with Substance Abuse in Borno State, Nigeria

Maigari¹,

Mosaku²,

Umar³

et al. 2014

IOSRJNHS

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-49%). For attitude assessment, a 5-point Likert scale was used and scored as very much (5), much (4), very little (3), little (2), none (1). The maximum score obtainable for attitude was 40. Therefore, attitude was grouped as very satisfactory (30-40), satisfactory (19-29), and not satisfactory (1-18). The age range of nurses was between 20 and 55 years (mean age 38±9.36). The overall knowledge scores

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Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Care of Clients with Substance Abuse in Borno State, Nigeria

Maigari¹,

Mosaku²,

Umar³

et al. 2014

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“…Although the attitudes of nurses towards alcohol have been studied in the United States and in some European countries for nearly five decades (4) , there are few studies about the attitudes of nurses towards alcohol, alcoholism and the alcoholics in Brazil. Of these, some (5) aimed at evaluating the most usual instruments for the measurement of nursing attitudes towards the theme.…”

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Development and validation of a scale of attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics

Vargas

Luis

2008

Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem

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The others (6)(7) aimed to evaluate the attitudes of these professionals towards alcohol and the alcoholics.The most usual instrument in Brazil to measure the nurses' attitudes is Seaman Mannello Nurses's Attitudes Toward Alcohol and Alcoholism Scale (8) .Translated and validated in the country (5) , it is a scale consisting of 30 items, distributed in five factors, which cover, among other aspects, the perceptions of the alcoholics and their attitudes towards drinking.A brief analysis of the results obtained with the application of Seaman Mannello in the Brazilian studies (6-7) revealed, among other aspects, that nurses conceived alcoholism as a disease, and that alcoholics were ill people, revealing positive attitudes. However, negative attitudes were predominant in nurses regarding working with this clientele (6)(7)9) . When the authors (5-6) evaluated the use of this scale, they noted some limitations. Among them, never having been published integrally; few existing studies about its psychometric properties (5) and the inexistence of satisfactory studies on its cross-cultural adaptation for application in Brazil (10) , which makes it unsatisfactory for usage in the country -the main justification for the construction of a new attitude scale (11) .The classical theories about attitudes (12) define this construct as predispositions. In order to respond to a given set of stimuli with a given set of answers, an attitude can thus be defined as an acquired and lasting predisposition to always act the same way towards a given class of objects, or a persistent mental/neural state of readiness to respond to a given class of objects, not as they are, but as they are conceived (12) .Observing the lack of instruments to evaluate

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“…Nursing care delivery to patients with alcohol-related problems has been documented in the literature as being difficult and is affected by the moral model of explanation of alcoholism [3] . One outcome of this situation is the negative attitude of nurses toward alcoholic patients.…”

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Nurses’ personal knowledge and their attitudes toward alcoholism issues: A study of a sample of specialized services in Brazil

Vargas

2013

JNEP

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Background: Changes to more positive attitudes and the development of skills to enable work with alcohol-and alcoholism-related issues were associated with knowledge in the area). The aim of this report is to investigate the relationship between nurses' and nursing assistants' attitudes toward alcohol and alcoholism and their knowledge of alcohol and alcoholism issues. Methods:The Scale of Attitudes toward alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics and a knowledge questionnaire were completed using a convenience sample of nurses and nursing assistants (N = 75) working in eight clinics specializing in the treatment of alcohol and other drug problems in São Paulo City, Brazil.Results: A positive correlation was found between the number of correct answers on the knowledge questionnaire and positive attitudes of the participants. The age of the participants (p = .028), specific preparation in alcohol and other drugs during nursing education (p = .019) and knowledge assessed using the Knowledge questionnaire (p =.016) were significantly correlated with positive attitudes. Personal working category (nurse/nurse assistants; p = .007) significantly influenced the mean knowledge level. Conclusion:These results indicate that nurses show more positive attitudes toward alcohol and alcoholism problems than nurse assistants and that their score on the knowledge questionnaire was on average 1.456 points higher than that of nurse assistants, suggesting a relation between higher knowledge levels and positive attitudes.

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Nurses' Attitudes toward Substance Misusers. I. Surveys

Cited by 93 publications

References 14 publications

Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Care of Clients with Substance Abuse in Borno State, Nigeria

Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Care of Clients with Substance Abuse in Borno State, Nigeria

Development and validation of a scale of attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics

Nurses’ personal knowledge and their attitudes toward alcoholism issues: A study of a sample of specialized services in Brazil

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