Factors Influencing the Educational Needs and Nursing Intention Regarding COVID-19 Patient Care among Undergraduate Nursing Students

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 23; p. 15671
• Main Authors: Ji, Eun-Joo, Lee, Eun-Kyung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 25-11-2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Attitudes; Coronaviruses; Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Disease control; Disease transmission; Education; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Humans; Infections; Infectious diseases; Intention; Knowledge; Nurses; Nursing; Nursing education; Pandemics; Patient Care; Patients; Personal protective equipment; Post traumatic stress disorder; Respiratory diseases; Students; Students, Nursing; Surveys and Questionnaires; South Korea; COVID-19; needs; attitude; intention
• ISSN: 1660-4601; 1661-7827; 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192315671

This study examines final-year undergraduate nursing students to determine the educational needs for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), knowledge of COVID-19, attitude toward COVID-19 patient care, and nursing intention toward COVID-19 patients.
A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 21 April to 6 May 2022. The participants included 144 final-year (4th year) undergraduate nursing students in Gangwon-do, Daegu-si, and Chungcheong-do. The SPSS/WIN 21.0 program was used to analyze the data; Pearson's correlation coefficients and multiple regression were further performed.
The attitude toward COVID-19 patient care (β = 0.38,
= 0.001), a cohabitant formerly infected with COVID-19, and the intention to study COVID-19 patient care (β = 0.16,
= 0.018) were found to influence nursing intention toward COVID-19 patients. These variables had a 27% explanatory power for nursing intention (F = 14.23,
< 0.001).
To foster undergraduate nursing students' nursing intention toward patients with emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), a program focused on cultivating a positive attitude toward EID patient care should be developed and implemented. The curriculum should further include education on EID patient care.