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Personal and social determinants of rural nurses' willingness to care for persons with AIDS
Author(s) -
Bray Preston Deborah,
Forti Esther M.,
Kassab Cathy,
Barthalow Koch Patricia
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-240x(200002)23:1<67::aid-nur8>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - feeling , preparedness , medicine , normative , nursing , family medicine , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law
The purpose of this study was to investigate the individual and social determinants of rural nurses' willingness to care for people with AIDS (PWAs). Willingness to care was viewed as a function of nurses' personal attitudes about AIDS care and PWAs; the influence of normative (significant others), comparative (the nursing profession), and generalized (the rural community) reference group norms on these attitudes; and how much importance respondents placed on membership in these reference groups. Responses to a mailed questionnaire from 615 rural nurses were analyzed. Individual determinants were nurses' feelings of preparedness and favorable attitudes about their personal safety when administering care. Social determinants were the degree of upset of respondents' significant others about their caring for AIDS patients and favorable attitudes of the respondents about professional and social concerns related to AIDS. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Res Nurs Health 23:67–78, 2000