Journal article
Nurses’ attitudes and emotions toward caring for adults with intellectual disability: An international replication study
Journal of nursing scholarship, Vol.54(1), pp.117-124
01/2022
PMID: 34741386
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Abstract
Purpose
Negative nurse attitudes and emotions toward caring for adults with intellectual disability have been implicated as a contributing factor to the cascade of health disparities faced by this population. The purpose of this study was to identify influencing factors of nurses’ attitudes and emotions toward caring for adults with intellectual disability that transcend national borders and differing systems of care.
Methods
This cross-sectional correlational predictive replication study used an online electronic survey with a snowball sample of 115 Australian nurses, from March to August 2020.
Results
Nurses’ attitudes toward adults with intellectual disability were significantly less positive compared to adults without intellectual disability, and nurses’ beliefs about the quality of life of adults with intellectual disability predicted nurses’ attitudes, replicating findings of the USA study. The frequency of both the professional and personal contact was associated with positive and negative emotions in both countries, however no consistent predictive pattern was evident.
Conclusions
Our findings suggest that worldwide, there is room for improvement in nurses’ attitudes and emotions toward this underserved group. Future research should investigate the role of nurses’ beliefs about quality of life of adults with intellectual disability for potential interventions to improve nurses’ attitudes toward care.
Clinical relevance
Assisting nurses to identify misconceptions about the quality of life of adults with intellectual disability is suggested as an intervention to improve nurses’ attitudes toward caring for adults with intellectual disability.
Details
- Title
- Nurses’ attitudes and emotions toward caring for adults with intellectual disability: An international replication study
- Creators
- Melissa L. Desroches - University of Massachusetts DartmouthVirginia A. Howie - Central Queensland UniversityNathan J. Wilson - Western Sydney UniversityPeter Lewis - Western Sydney University
- Publication Details
- Journal of nursing scholarship, Vol.54(1), pp.117-124
- Number of pages
- 8
- Identifiers
- 991013097817902368
- Copyright
- © 2021 Sigma Theta Tau International.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article