Using Trigger Films as a Bariatric Sensitivity Intervention: Improving Nursing Students' Attitudes and Beliefs About Caring for Obese Patients.

نویسندگان

  • Margory A Molloy
  • Valerie K Sabol
  • Susan G Silva
  • Mary Elizabeth Guimond
چکیده

Nurse educators are uniquely positioned to improve obesity-related attitudes and beliefs among prelicensure nursing students. A bariatric sensitivity intervention using 6 trigger films with facilitated debriefing was designed and delivered to 70 first-semester baccalaureate nursing students. Attitudes and beliefs significantly improved immediately after the intervention on 3 of the 5 attitude measures and on the belief measure. Improvements in beliefs/attitudes were sustained 30 days after the intervention but may require content reinforcement throughout the curriculum for long-term effects.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Nurse educator

دوره 41 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016