Objective:
The aim of this study is to examine the perspectives of nursing students
towards refugees in Turkey.
Methods: This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The sample was composed of 220 nursing
students. A 20-item questionnaire
prepared by literature-based researchers was used as a data collection tool.
Results: It
was found that 63.6% of the students who participated in the survey had a
female age of 19.69 ± 1.18, 45.5% had a middle income level, and 79.1% had a
social security. While 55.5% of the students have not communicated with the
refugees before, 92.3% of them have provided job opportunities to the refugees,
80.5% have empathized with the refugees, 27.3% of the family and relatives have
negative attitudes towards the refugees, whereas 24.5% 57.3% of the refugees
think that they should be helped if they ask for financial assistance, 59.1% of
them feel uncomfortable with the inclusion of the refugees, 82.3% 62.7% of the
refugees had information about their living conditions, 73.6% of the refugees
used health services as competently, 83.2% of them did not have any individual
problems related to refugees, 95% of the refugees returned to their countries
when the problem ended n that they should have been looking at education as
adverse to the rights granted to refugees 46.8% and 53.2% of refugees coming to
our country is found to meet the undecided.
Conclusion:
It was found that nursing students in general have positive opinions about
refugees in the framework of findings. It is proposed to plan initiatives for
situations where information deficiencies are unstable.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Health Care Administration |
Journal Section | Articles |
Authors | |
Publication Date | December 25, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 |