Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The Third International Clinical Nursing Research Congress, İstanbul, Türkiye, 8 - 11 Aralık 2020, ss.95-99
Goal:
This descriptive study was aimed to evaluate the knowledge levels of the nursing students
regarding rational drug use.
Methods:
The universe of the study is composed of nursing students of Yozgat Bozok University Faculty
of Health Sciences. 257 nursing students who volunteered to participate in the study and who
could be reached online between 01.11.2020-12.11.2020 were included in the study. Ethical
approval was obtained from the Yozgat Bozok University ethics commission, and verbal and
written consent was obtained from the students before starting the study. The data were
collected using the sociodemographic information form and the Rational Drug Use Scale. The
Shapiro-Wilk test was used to check whether the numerical data were suitable for normal
distribution. Descriptive statistics such as number, percentage, mean, standard deviation and
Man Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis analysis were used in the analysis of the data.
Findings:
It was determined that 79.4% of the students were women, 34.6% were in the second grade,
and the average age was 20.37 ± 1.81. We found that 79.0% of the students chose the profession
willingly, 96.1% did not have any chronic diseases and 97.7% did not have a regular medication
and 79.0% of the students had not received training on rational drug use before. The mean score
of rational drug use scale of the students was found to be 33.43 ± 2.93, and 77.4% of them had
insufficient knowledge (scale score ≤ 34). Statistically significant difference was not found
between the mean score of the scale and the descriptive characteristics such as age, gender,
grade level, presence of chronic disease, and prior rational drug use training (p> 0.05).
Results:
As a result, it was found that more than half of the nursing students had insufficient knowledge
regarding rational drug use. Nursing students should be educated regarding rational drug use
throughout their undergraduate education, the effectiveness of the education should be
evaluated and support should be provided to develop attitudes and behaviors.
Keywords : Knowledge level, nursing, rational medicine, student