Investigation into intercultural sensitivity among nursing students at a university in Turkey

• Authors: Demet Aktaş , Nurcan Ertuğ , Esra Öztürk

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this study was to investigate intercultural sensitivity among nursing students in Turkey. This study is a cross-sectional study. It was conducted with nursing students at a university in Ankara. The sample comprised 152 nursing students at the university. This study was carried out between May 2013 and June 2013. Data were collected using an Interview Questionnaire and Intercultural Sensitivity Scale. The data were analysed using frequency, independent t-test and one-way ANOVA. The study found out that the nursing students had higher scores of cultural sensitivity (88.92 ± 12.20). It was found that senior year students, the students who speak a foreign language and the students who had chosen the school willingly had higher scores of cultural sensibility (p < 0.05). The study found that the nursing students had higher scores of cultural sensivility. To increase intercultural sensitivity of nursing students it is recommended that the maintenance strategies and the concept of intercultural sensitivity should be integrated in the curriculum of nursing education and postgraduate training programs.

Keywords

EN

culture; intercultural sensitivity; nursing students; nursing education; intercultural nursing education

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 40
• Pages: 48-57

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Demet Aktaş

author

Nurcan Ertuğ

author

Esra Öztürk

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2015.40.2.04

Biblioteka Nauki

2012157