The Relationship Between The Advocacy Role Of Pediatric Nurses And Their Attitudes Towards The Disabled İn Health

Project no. 24017 · Status: Kapanmış (Yayın bekleniyor) · 2023

Summary

Objective: The research aimed to determine the relationship between the patient advocacy roles of pediatric nurses and their attitudes towards disability in health services.Method: This research was planned as a quantitative research and relational design was used as a design. The data of the research were collected online with a questionnaire created through google forms. The questionnaire consisted of 3 parts including the Personal Data Form, the Disability Attitudes in Health Services Scale and the Advocacy Scale for Nurses.Results: 311 pediatric nurses participated in the study. The majority of the participants consisted of undergraduate women between the ages of 26-33. It was found that 50.5% of the participants were married, and 25.1% were those who had a disabled person in or around their family.31.9% of the participants stated that they encountered mental, 18.2% orthopedic, 15.9% hearing, 14.9% speech, 13.0% visual and 5.3% other types of disabilities.65.6% of the participants stated that they frequently practice their advocacy roles, 69.8% stated that they encountered obstacles while performing their advocacy role, 28.8% stated that they were an obstacle due to the limited time frame.The attitude scale scores of pediatric nurses towards disabled people in health care ranged between 30-62 and the average score was found to be 45.81±4.77.Dec. When the scores obtained from the scale were evaluated between 0-100 Dec, it was calculated that the average score of the scale obtained from the study was at the level of 61.0%.The patient advocacy scale scores of pediatric nurses for nurses ranged between 114-195 December and the average scores were found to be 161.59±17.48. When the scores obtained from the scale were evaluated between 0-100 Dec, it was found that the average score of the scale obtained from the study was at the level of 82.8%.r=-.127 and p= .026 were calculated between the attitudes of pediatric nurses towards the disabled in health care and patient advocacy compliance scores for nurses.According to this finding, it was determined that there was a low-level negative relationship between the attitudes of pediatric nurses towards the disabled in health care and their patient advocacy roles (p<.05).Conclusion: 311 pediatric nurses, mostly women, participated in the study voluntarily. It was determined that there was a low-level negative relationship between the attitudes of the participating pediatric nurses towards the disabled and their advocacy roles. It has been observed that women take on more advocacy roles. This gender difference does not affect the attitude towards disabled people. The aging of pediatric nurses, their increasing professional experience, increased education level, presence of disabled people around them, and the fact that they have encountered disabled individuals before affect their advocacy role significantly. These variables did not have an effect on the attitudes of disabled people in health care.

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