title: Attitude change amongst nursing students towards Australian aborigines.
abstract: A pre-test and post-test impact evaluation design was used to determine if attendance at a workshop conducted by Australian aboriginal health personnel improved the attitudes of nursing students towards Aborigines. A three-hour workshop attended by first year nursing students comprised an introduction, video and discussion. A self-administered questionnaire, consisting of socio-demographic background questions and attitude rating scale, was used to measure students' attitudes before and after the workshop. The Wilcoxon signed rank test and paired t-test were used to test for significant improvement in students' total attitude scores. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine if socio-demographic variables contributed to the changes in the students' attitude scores. Complete data were collected from 246 students. Results indicate improvement in attitude scores. Socio-demographic variables did not contribute to these scores.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quine
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bush
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009517:New South Wales; D011287:Prejudice; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*