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J Lehmann

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Changing students' attitudes to diabetes.

In a cross-sectional study, the appropriateness of attitudes of first, second and third year undergraduate nursing students to seven aspects of diabetes care were measured using the revised Diabetes Attitude Scale. The aim of the research was to identify changes in the students' attitudes and to examine the relationship between attitudinal changes and the exposure of students to diabetes-related education. The study found that attitudes of graduating students to five aspects of the care of people with diabetes were significantly more appropriate than those of beginning students. It was concluded that exposure to diabetes education had been the major factor in engendering attitudes that underlie positive nursing approaches to the health care of people with diabetes.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗

The effect of nursing education and experience on attitudes to diabetes.

The diabetes-related attitudes of 629 nurses working in South Australian hospitals were identified in a study using a questionnaire that included the revised Diabetes Attitudes Scale. Overall, the nurses' attitudes were appropriate; some were found to be related to levels of nursing education and others to nursing experience. There were significant differences between some attitudes held by nurses and previously reported attitudes of pre-registration nursing students. This study indicates that formal nursing education affects nurses' attitudes to diabetes and implications of the findings for inservice diabetes programs are discussed.

Adult↗