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KMID : 0928020110150010109
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Nursing and Innovation
2011 Volume.15 No. 1 p.109 ~ p.121
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Attitudes of Nursing Students toward Autopsy
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Oh Song-Lee
Lee Sung-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide nursing students with basic materials in order to promote their positive attitudes toward autopsy by extending opportunities to attend autopsy. To do this, attitudes of nursing students toward autopsy were investigated and then any differences in attitudes of nursing students toward autopsy according to whether or not to have attended autopsy were examined.
Method: A survey was conducted targeting 433 nursing students from C Nursing College in G city which didn’t have a course for attending autopsy and autopsy practice, and also from K Nursing College in D city which had a course for attending autopsy and autopsy practice in their curriculum. The data was processed using the statistical program, SPSS for windows ver. 17.0.
Results: Attitudes of nursing students toward autopsy were positive, and there were no differences in the total scores of attitudes according to whether or not to have attended autopsy. However, there were significant differences in the scores of detailed items concerning autopsy according to whether or not to have attended autopsy.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the course for attending autopsy and autopsy practice among the curricula of the science of nursing had an impact on the course of establishing positive attitudes of nursing students toward autopsy.
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KEYWORD
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Autopsy, Attitude
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