Abstract
Violence against women is a major public health problem, which considers one of afundamental infringement of women‟s human rights. Health professionals especially nurseplay a vital role in early detection and recognizing abused women. The aim of the studywas to assess effect of self-learning on awareness and attitude of Technical Nursing Institutestudents toward recognition of violence against women. Subjects and Method: Quasiexperimentalresearch design used in this study. The study conducted at Technical NursingInstitute affiliated to Tanta University, 315 studied students were in second year 2018/2019agreed and participate in the entire study. Tools of study Tool I: A structure questionnaireschedule Sheet, It included two parts, Part I Socio demographic data; Part II Nursing Student'sknowledge regarding overview on violence against women. Tool II: Scale for Recognizingthe Signs of Violence against Women by Nurses and Midwives (SRSVAWNM) .Tool III: -Health Professional's Attitudes toward Identification of Female Victims of Domestic ViolenceScale. Results: Total knowledge, recognition and attitude scores of studied students werehighly significant improved post self-learning than pre self-learning. Conclusion: The selflearningapproach was effective and improved positively the studied student's level ofawareness and attitude toward recognition of violence against women. Recommendation:integrating the courses of violence against women and how to be recognized and manage intothe nursing curriculum is very important.
Highlights
Violence against women is a great global issue
Nurses attitude toward violence against women as an unjustifiable act, they considered their role as providing support to women and collaborating with other institutions and willing to help, but do not know how; health professional's find barriers that decrease ability in dealing with abused women; barriers appearing at the individual level, at the institutional level and on a societal level [12]
The present study revealed that, about three quarters of the studied students are living in rural area and are living with nuclear family table [1]. This disagreed with the study result of Tambağ H, Turan Z (2015), who evaluated the ability of nursing students in a Turkish school of health science to recognize signs of violence against women
Summary
Violence against women is a great global issue. Violence against women and girls is the focus of society. It's important to health professionals to identify this problem well especially nurses to have adequate knowledge, skills and practice in identifying signs of violence and dealing with its victims properly. This may occur through self-learning (SL) which is an essential concept in problem-based learning (PBL); and in a broader sense, student-centered learning. The aim of this study is to: - Assess effect of self-learning on awareness and attitude of Technical Nursing Institute students toward recognition of violence against women. Research hypothesis:-Self-learning will improve the awareness and attitude of nursing students toward recognition of violence against women. It included two parts as follow:Part I: - Socio demographic data, which include data, related to age, sex, marital status, residence and family type
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