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KMID : 0379720170310030554
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2017 Volume.31 No. 3 p.554 ~ p.566
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Effects of Knowledge and Attitudes towards Dementia on Social Distance from Senile Dementia among University Students
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Park Mi-Jeong
Moon Hea-Kyung
Oh Doo-Nam
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Abstract
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Purpose: The study was conducted to investigate the effects of knowledge and attitude towards dementia on social distance from senile dementia among university students.
Methods: The study was a descriptive study based on 235 university students. Data were collected from September 1 to 15, 2017 using a structured self-report questionnaire. Dementia knowledge, dementia attitude, and social distance from senile dementia were measured. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Mann-Whitney U-test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson’s correlation coefficients and hierarchical multiple regression.
Results: After adjusting for the general and dementia-related characteristics of the participants, the significant predictors of social distance from senile dementia among university students were dementia attitude. Moreover, knowledge and attitude towards dementia explained 27.8% of the variance in social distance from senile dementia among university students.
Conclusion: The results indicate that educators need to make efforts to improve dementia attitude and to develop plans to increase dementia knowledge in order to reduce university students’ prejudice against senile dementia.
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KEYWORD
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University student, Dementia, Knowledge, Attitude, Social distance
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