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02, 2023;10 (2): 1083-1091.

Perception of nursing students from the Middle East about caring: A descriptive, comparative, cross-sectional study.

Rabia S Allari, Khaldoun Hamdan, Zainab Zahran, Amany Alabdullah, Safaa G Salem, Ahmad Rajeh Saifan, Nasser Ibrahim Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon Khalil Abu-El-Noor, Omar Al Omari
Author Information
  1. Rabia S Allari: Faculty of Nursing, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan. ORCID
  2. Khaldoun Hamdan: Faculty of Nursing, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan.
  3. Zainab Zahran: Department of Adult Nursing, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, London, UK.
  4. Amany Alabdullah: Maternity and Child Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ORCID
  5. Safaa G Salem: Maternity and Child Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  6. Ahmad Rajeh Saifan: Faculty of Nursing, Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan.
  7. Nasser Ibrahim Abu-El-Noor: Faculty of Nursing, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine.
  8. Mysoon Khalil Abu-El-Noor: Faculty of Nursing, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Palestine.
  9. Omar Al Omari: College of Nursing, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. ORCID
PMID: 36137179 DOI: 10.1002/nop2.1375

Abstract

AIM: To investigate the perception of undergraduate nursing students in different countries in the Middle East about caring.
DESIGN: A cross-sectional, descriptive, comparative design.
METHODS: A total of 1,582 nursing students from six different countries in the Middle East completed the Caring Dimensions Inventory.
RESULTS: The total mean score of caring was 138.8 (± 15.8), indicating a high level of caring. The highest mean score was for nursing students from Egypt (M = 145.37 ± 15.97), whereas the lowest was for nursing students from Palestine (M = 135.36 ± 13.48). The caring perception was more significant for female students than male students, and no significant correlation was found between students' ages and caring scores.
CONCLUSIONS: The high level of caring among nursing students reflects the involvement of caring behaviour in the nursing curricula, which motivates nursing schools to continue stressing the importance of caring and to enhance this behaviour among their graduates.
PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: Improving the students' caring competencies as recommended by the study will influence the caregiving quality in the future that will be reflected in nurse-patient caring relationships and raise the patients' and public satisfaction with nursing care.

Keywords

Caring Dimensions Inventory Middle East caring nursing perception students

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MeSH Term

Humans
Male
Female
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Students, Nursing
Empathy
Surveys and Questionnaires
Middle East
Perception
Journal Article

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