간호대학생의 비대면 전공연계 요양원 봉사활동이 치매에 대한 태도에 미치는 효과

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to introduce a case of online major-related nursing home volunteering during the COVID-19 Pandemic because face-to-face volunteer work was difficult, and also to identify the effects on improving attitudes toward dementia among nursing students.
 This study adopted a single group pre and post-test, a quasi-experimental design. The participants, third-year nursing students, had the Dementia Partner online education and were given orientation on the cognitive enhancement activities program. The participants planned a cognitive enhancement activities program for the elderly in nursing homes. Also they made a video clip to let the elderly know how to conduct the programs. The elderly in nursing home participated in the cognitive enhancement program together with the caregiver while watching the video clip made by nursing students. To identify the effect of the online major-related nursing home volunteering, attitudes toward dementia of students were measured before, and a month after the volunteering.
 The mean scores of attitudes toward dementia measured after the online major-related nursing home volunteering were significantly improved compared to the baseline. By subcategory, it was identified that the score of ‘social comfort’ related to behaviors and feelings of comfort around people with dementia increased significantly. However, there was no significant change in ‘dementia knowledge’.
 This study introduced specifically the case of online major-related nursing home volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic and confirmed there was effects on improving attitudes toward dementia of nursing students even though online volunteering. The education and experience of dementia could make professionals who will care for dementia patients in the future have a positive attitude toward dementia. As a result, it could play an important role in providing quality and safe services to people with dementia. The results of this study could provide a fundamental and practical strategy for online volunteering to contribute to solving social problems in the situation when online volunteering increases in quantity.