Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Giresun University, Giresun, Turkey.
Psychogeriatrics. 2024 Jul;24(4):959-967. doi: 10.1111/psyg.13154. Epub 2024 Jun 14.
Nursing and midwifery students' perceptions and attitudes toward older adults affect their behaviours, career choices and/or the quality of care provided to older adults after graduation. This study aimed to evaluate the perceptions of second year nursing and midwifery students toward elderly people staying in nursing homes through metaphor analysis.
This qualitative study has used the phenomenological approach. The sample of the study consisted of 128 nursing and midwifery students by purposive sampling method. Students were prompted to complete a sentence to express their perceptions about the elderly living in nursing homes: 'The elderly in the nursing home is similar to … because …' Participants were required to fill in their responses in two stages, providing metaphors in the first blank and reasons for their metaphors in the second blank.
The results indicated that five main themes and 12 sub-themes were obtained from student metaphors: (i) needing help in meeting their needs (need for care and need for love); (ii) the emotional burden of a life away from loved ones (loneliness, abandonment, and helplessness); (iii) exhaustion at the end of the road (end, loss, and unproductive); (iv) holding on to life again (friendship and beginning); and (v) post-traumatic growth (strong and experienced).
Students should question how to create opportunities and increase interaction for the elderly in the age of changing and developing technology before graduation and should be trained as professional individuals who are willing for this purpose.
护理和助产学学生对老年人的看法和态度会影响他们的行为、职业选择和/或毕业后为老年人提供的护理质量。本研究旨在通过隐喻分析评估二年级护理和助产学学生对居住在养老院的老年人的看法。
这是一项采用现象学方法的定性研究。该研究的样本由 128 名护理和助产学学生组成，采用目的抽样法。学生们被要求完成一个句子来表达他们对住在养老院的老年人的看法：“养老院里的老年人就像……，因为……”。要求参与者分两个阶段填写他们的回答，在第一个空白处填写隐喻，在第二个空白处填写隐喻的原因。
研究结果表明，从学生的隐喻中得出了五个主要主题和十二个子主题：（i）满足他们需求的需要（照顾需求和爱的需求）；（ii）远离亲人的情感负担（孤独、被遗弃和无助）；（iii）人生尽头的疲惫（结束、失去和无生产力）；（iv）重新把握生活（友谊和开始）；（v）创伤后成长（坚强和有经验）。
学生们应该在毕业前思考如何在技术不断变化和发展的时代为老年人创造机会并增加互动，并应培养为实现这一目标而愿意成为专业人士的学生。
