TY  - JOUR
TI  - Determination of nursing students' tendency to violence
AB  - Purpose: The study aims at analysing nursing students’tendency to violence.Materials and Methods: The population of thedescriptive and cross-sectional study consisted of 1329nursing students who continue their education atCukurova University Faculty of Health Sciences NursingDepartment. Without applying any further criteria, thewhole population was included in the study. The sampleconsisted of 789 students (59.3%). “Personal InformationForm” and “Violence Tendency Scale (VTS)” were usedas data collection tools.Results: Mean age of the students was20.58±1.88 and68.9% of them were female. VTS average score for theparticipants was 38.79±9.32 and according to the scale71.1% have “Low” level of tendency to violence.Statistically significant correlations were found betweenstudents’ average scores for VTS and their year at theuniversity, their gender, smoking and alcoholconsumption, history of inflicting violence on themselvesor others and being subject to violence.Conclusion: The study indicated that nursing students’tendency to violence is low and the students who haveexperiences of inflicting violence on themselves or othersor have been exposed to violence before have highertendency to violence when compared with the studentswho do not have such experiences.
AU  - Yeşil Demirci, Pınar
AU  - Eskimez, Zehra
AU  - Öztunç, Gürsel
AU  - TOSUNÖZ, İpek Köse
DO  - 10.17826/cumj.459256
PY  - 2019
JO  - Cukurova Medical Journal
VL  - 44
IS  - 2
SN  - 2602-3032
SP  - 471
EP  - 478
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/381740
ER  -