Research On Five-year Higher Vocational College Nursing Students’ Aging Knowledge, Attitude Towards The Elderly And Employment Intention Of Engaging In The Elderly Care

Objective:Investigate attitudes of five-year higher vocational college nursing students to the elderly, aging status and willingness of engaging in gerontological nursing and analyze its influencing factors, and finally provide references for gerontological nursing education.Methods:Quantitative study:By stratified random sampling method, randomly select students in each grade from five-year nursing higher vocational college as the research object. With general information and questionnaire on job-searching intention of gerontological nursing, we research on Kogan’s Attitudes toward Old People (KAOP) and Facts of Aging Quiz 1 (FAQ1). Input data and check by EpiData3.0 and conduct statistical analysis by SPSS 19.0. Statistical methods include descriptive statistics, t test, x2 test, variance analysis, multiple regression analysis, multivariate Logistic regression analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, etc.Qualitative research:Adopt purposive sampling method and semi-structured in-depth interview method to collect data. Select the students in each grade from five-year nursing higher vocational college to have in-depth interviews. Adopt Colaizzi’s phenomenological data analysis method for data collection, sorting and analysis.Results:Quantitative study:Sent out 752 copies of questionnaire, and got back 732 effective copies. (1) KAOP score was 155.82± 20.62, FAQ1 score was 10.27 ± 2.68, the scores of two questionnaires were positively correlated (r=0.168, P=0.000). Multiple regression analysis results showed that:Nursing student who had good relationship with the elderly, had cared the elderly, willing to engage in gerontological nursing and do better in FAQI have more active attitude toward older people. Senior students and students having higher KAOP scores are also better in FAQ1. (2) 409 (55.9%) of 732 were willing to work in gerontological nursing field after graduation. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis results showed that people have positive attitude towards the elderly, live with the elderly before, have good relationship with the elderly, took care of the elderly before, none-only children and male nursing students are more willing to work in gerontological nursing field. The reasons that they don’t want to engage in the cause of the elderly care are that difficulty communication, hard working, bad hygienic habit, low wages, unstable job, no security, no challenging, etc.Qualitative research:Interview 16 nursing students, including four boys and 12 girls. Materials are saturated. By Colaizzi’s phenomenological data analysis method, analysis the influence factors of employment intension in gerontological nursing field and the result shows:the reasons why the nursing students are not willing to engage are that prejudicetowards the aged care and pension institutions, poor wages, low social identity, individual psychological and family factors, etc. the reasons why some are willing to engage in the cause of the aged care including emotions to the elderly, the sense of responsibility and value, good prospects and alleviated employment pressure, etc.Conclusion:(1) Five-year higher vocational college nursing students have positive attitude to the old, but there is a common lack of knowledge of FAQ1; The higher FAQ1 scores, the more positive attitude to the elderly.(2) Nursing students’intension of engaging in gerontological nursing field is at medium level. Factors that affect nursing students engaged in aged care will mainly includes:prejudice and misunderstanding of nursing, low economic and social benefits. Therefore, schools and hospital offering internship should strengthen gerontological nursing education;Social media positive broadcast the old and gerontological care work; The government should provide the relevant policy support and increase capital spending.