Nursing faculty and students' attitudes regarding HIV.
A multidisciplinary group of health professional educators examined the faculty and student attitudes related to AIDS in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs and in a dental hygiene program. Results indicated consistent differences in attitudes toward homosexuality and intravenous drug users, AIDS-phobia, AIDS-related work stress, and willingness to work with HIV, homosexual, or intravenous-drug-using patients among faculty, undergraduate, and graduate nursing students, and certificate-level dental hygiene students. Faculty and master's-level nursing students consistently indicated the most positive attitudes and behavioral intentions. A one-year follow-up of a sample of undergraduate students revealed little change in these attitudes or behavioral intentions. Implications of these findings for nursing educators are discussed.
Mueller
C W
CW
School of Social Work, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822.
Cerny
J E
JE
Amundson
M J
MJ
Waldron
J A
JA
D001290:Attitude; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D009910:Oral Hygiene / Q000191:economics*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires