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Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
BMC Nursing, Vol.22(1), pp.1-9
2023
PMID: 38031123
Abstract
Background: There are huge demands for aged-care workers, and undergraduate gerontological nursing education plays a critical role in providing academic and professional training.
Purpose: To examine relationships of characteristics, aged-care education, and gerontological nursing competencies with the intention to work in aged care.
Methods: An online survey was distributed to undergraduate nursing students between April and June 2022 to gather characteristics, relevant aged-care education, gerontological nursing competencies, and intentions to work in aged care data. Multivariate regression analyses were conducted to identify determinants of the intention to work in aged care.
Results: Students (n = 358) who were older (p < 0.001) and who were married (p < 0.001) had higher intentions to work in aged care. "Promoting mental health and psychological well-being", "Providing evidence-based dementia care", and "Enabling access to technology", were also associated with positive intentions.
Conclusions: This study provides evidence on determinants of the intention to work in aged care, particularly gerontological nursing competencies.
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- Title
- Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
- Authors
- Mu-Hsing Ho - University of Hong KongJung Jae Lee - University of Hong KongJee Young Joo - Gachon UniversityKasia Bail - University of CanberraMegan F. Liu (Corresponding Author) - Taipei Medical UniversityVictoria Traynor - University of Wollongong
- Publication details
- BMC Nursing, Vol.22(1), pp.1-9
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12912-023-01613-1
- ISSN
- 1472-6955
- PMID
- 38031123
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Data Availability
- The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991154937302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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