The Study of Student Anxiety in a Tuberculosis Nursing Situation

Heinemann, E; Rj, Hill; Birkbeck, L

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“…In order to determine whether negative attitudes toward AIDS patients are associated with factors like homonegativism, death anxiety, general concerns about germs and contagion, and beliefs about drug users, we selected questionnaire items about these topics from published scales. Items with high item-scale total correlations were selected from measures of homophobia (Lumby, 1976), death anxiety (Nelson & Nelson, 1975), and a measure of nurses’ fears about tuberculosis (Heinemann, Hill, & Birkbeck, 1959). Only 2 or 3 items were selected from each scale in order to limit the time required to complete the questionnaire.…”

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Measuring medical and nursing students' attitudes toward AIDS.

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Health Psychology

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Investigated attitudes toward AIDS patients among medical and nursing students. Two separate cohorts of students (total N = 550) were surveyed to examine and then validate with confirmatory factor analysis the latent factor structure of such attitudes. Results indicate that a three-factor structure representing fear of contagion, negative emotions, and professional resistance provides a good fit to the data (goodness-of-fit index [GFI] = .92, parsimonious GFI = .67). We offer the resulting 15-item AIDS Attitudes Scale (AAS) as a reliable and valid measure for assessing health care students' attitudes toward working with AIDS patients. Our results suggest the presence of multiple predictors of such attitudes.

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confidence: 99%