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KMID : 0367020230350010071
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Journal of Korean Academic of Adult Nursing
2023 Volume.35 No. 1 p.71 ~ p.83
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Factors Influencing Nursing Graduate Students’ Perception and Behavior Related to Climate Change and Health: A Secondary Data Analysis
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Park Min-Kyung
Baek Seo-Young
Jeong Da-Woon
Kim Gwang-Suk
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aimed to identify nursing graduate students’ perception and behavior related to climate change and health and the factors affecting them.
Methods: This secondary analysis used research data on the development of a Korean version of Climate Health and Nursing Tool. The participants were 220 graduate nursing students who were currently working. The dependent variable, which is the climate-health related perception and behavior, consisted of 20 items on awareness, concern, motivation, behaviors at home, and behaviors at work related to climate change.
Results: The mean score on the climate-health related perception and behavior was 73.52, which ranged from 41 to 100. Multiple linear regression showed that climate-health related perception and behavior were predicted by an optimistic attitude toward climate change response (β=.20, p=.002), experience in climate change- related extreme events (β=.18, p=.010), number of exposure pathways for climate change-related information (β=.17, p=.008), education level (β=.16, p=.015), and current work area (β=.15, p=.027).
Conclusion: An optimistic attitude toward climate change response was identified as the most influential factor that explained nursing students’climate-health related perception and behavior. Interventions that reinforce positive feelings about climate change-related behaviors and an optimistic attitude that climate change can be adapted to and mitigated through appropriate behaviors would significantly improve climate-health related perception and behavior.
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KEYWORD
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Behavior, Climate change, Health, Nurses, Perception
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