ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS ABOUT DEATH AND DYING HELD BY BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles K. Makgati ◽  
Leickness C. Simbayi
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Attitude Towards Death ◽  
Attitudes Towards Death

Using the Lester Attitude Towards Death Scale (LATDS), a study was conducted on a convenience sample of 179 Black South African university students to investigate their attitudes towards, and beliefs about, death and dying. It was found that overall the students held positive attitudes towards, death and dying. However, this was not influenced by any of the demographic variables tested. The implications of these findings on several topical death-related issues in South Africa are discussed.

Gambling Attitudes among Black South African University Students

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer ◽  
Johannes M. Thole
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Law Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Black South African ◽  
The North ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Course Of Study

Political change in South Africa since 1994 has led to a marked increase in opportunities to gamble. The purpose of the study was, therefore, to investigate attitudes towards gambling in African University students with the Gambling Attitude Scales by sex, course of study, and personality traits such as conservatism and risk-taking. The sample included 136 University of the North students, 80 first-year psychology and 56 second-year African law students. The students were 69 men and 65 women in the age range of 18 to 32 years ( M of 21.8 yr., SD = 3.9). Analysis showed that men held more positive attitudes than women did towards gambling. Positive attitudes toward gambling were related to individual differences in risk-taking, liberalism, and course of study.

scholarly journals Attitudes Of Transplant Nurses Toward Clinical Trials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olesya Kolisnyk
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Urban Hospital ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Transplant Patients ◽  
Positive Attitudes

Nurses may have an important role in supporting patients' decision making about their participation in clinical trials. Nurses' views about clinical trials and patients' understanding of the clinical trial process may shape the role nurses play in these trials. Little is known about transplant nurses' attitudes and beliefs toward clinical trials. This quantitative study employed a survey method involving a convenience sample of transplant nurses (n=39) in an urban hospital in Southern Ontario to describe attitudes and beliefs of transplant nurses toward clinical trials. The results indicated that transplant nurses had positive attitudes and beliefs toward clinical trials. Specifically, outpatient coordinators and older nurses were more positive in their attitudes. Nurses perceived transplant patients were knowledgeable about clinical trials. The majority of nurses (85%) engaged in the conduct of clinical trials. Transplant nurses also suggested educational, administrative and financial support as beneficial to further enhance their participation in these trials.

scholarly journals Psychometric properties of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale amongst black South African university students

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malose Makhubela ◽  
Solomon Mashegoane
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Acceptable Internal Consistency

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread widely leading to a global public health crisis of a pandemic proportion. Whilst infection rates tend to fluctuate in South Africa, COVID-19 remains a life-threatening disease with the capacity to wreak fear and concern. The present study evaluated the psychometric qualities of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) amongst black South African university students (N = 433; Female: 58%; Mage = 23.51 [SD = 4.18]). The FCV-19S demonstrated a unidimensional factor structure and acceptable internal consistency (α = 0.87), Omega (ω = 0.88) and the greatest lower bound (GLB = 0.90) reliabilities. In addition, discriminant validity was demonstrated when FCV-19S items loaded separately from ordinary fear. The FCV-19S can be used as a measure of COVID-19-related fear amongst black South African university students.

scholarly journals Misconceptions about traumatic brain injuries among South African university students

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrisma Pretorius ◽  
Mandi Broodryk
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Traumatic Brain Injuries ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
African Context ◽  
The Mean

<p><strong>Objective.</strong> To investigate the incidence and type of misconceptions about traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) harboured by university students. </p><p><strong>Method.</strong> A convenience sample of 705 university students were recruited and data were collected using an electronic survey. The link to the survey was sent via e-mail to all registered students at Stellenbosch University. The participants had to complete the Common Misconceptions about Traumatic Brain Injury (CM-TBI) questionnaire. </p><p><strong>Results.</strong> The findings of this study suggest that the students subscribe to misconceptions from each of the 7 categories of misconceptions about TBIs. The mean percentages of misconceptions about TBIs were calculated and the amnesia (mean 49.7%) and unconsciousness (mean 46.1%) categories were identified as the categories about which the respondents had the most misconceptions, while the mean percentages of misconceptions were lower for the categories of recovery (mean 27.6%),<strong> </strong>rehabilitation (mean 26.56%), prevention (mean 20.8%), brain injury sequelae (mean 18.7%) and brain damage (mean 8.4%). </p><p><span><strong>Conclusion.</strong> Generally, these findings appear to be in keeping with previous literature, which suggests that misconceptions about TBIs are common among the general population. This study’s identification of these misconceptions could help create awareness, provide a focus for information provision, and contribute to the development of educational intervention programmes tailored for the South African context.</span></p>

scholarly journals Perceptions, Attitudes, and Teaching about Death and Dying in the Medical School of the Federal University of Acre, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Daniel Teixeira Marques ◽  
Marcelo Xavier de Oliveira ◽  
Maria Liliane Gomes dos Santos ◽  
Rodrigo Pinheiro Silveira ◽  
Romeu Paulo Martins Silva
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Natural Event ◽  
Attitude Towards Death ◽  
Attitudes Towards Death ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Contemporary Western Society

ABSTRACT Death is one of the major taboos of contemporary Western society and is a forbidden and avoided subject. If in the past it was a public and domestic event, nowadays it is hidden in hospitals crowded with professionals who are unprepared to deal with issues related to the end of life. This unpreparedness is a reflex of excessively technical and non-humanistic training which favors healing over caring. Therefore, it seems medical students are taught to work against death and not with it. In this context, we sought to trace the profile of attitudes towards death of the students graduating from the Medicine course of a public university in Brazil and evaluate how this course has prepared them to deal with issues of death and dying in their perception. We employed quantitative and qualitative methodologies by applying two data collection instruments: a questionnaire to collect sociodemographic and academic data as well as data on the teaching about death, and another to define the profile of attitudes towards death (DAP-R). We analyzed the studied variables descriptively using frequencies and means, and intercorrelated them to infer the hypotheses. We also considered student statements for analysis and discussion of results based on comments on the responses to one of the questionnaires. As results, we observed that the students’ attitude towards death was characterized by a view of death as a natural event of life (neutral acceptance), while their imagination about death was permeated with conflicting feelings; that most students had experienced the death of a patient during the course (75.8%) although most of those received no guidance in these situations (80%); that the humanistic courses concentrated the approaches on death; and that such approaches somewhat contributed to create reflection and develop abilities for managing death. We concluded that teaching about death and dying is still concentrated in few courses of the medical curriculum, mainly in the humanistic ones, and is excessively theoretical, whereas the real experiences with death during the Medicine course are treated with detachment and silence when they could be better utilized for teaching and learning about the end of life.

scholarly journals Cancer prevention: attitudes and practices among black South African university students

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
South African ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Attitudes And Practices

This study intended to investigate the attitudes and practices of cancer prevention among Black South African university students.OpsommingDie doelwit van hierdie navorsing was om die houdings en praktyke vir die voorkoming van kanker onder swart studente aan Universiteite in Suid Afrika na te vors. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.

HEALTH-PROMOTING LIFESTYLES AND PERSONALITY AMONG BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Stepwise Regression ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
African Students ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Health Promoting

The aim of this study was to investigate health-promoting lifestyles (HPLP) and personality in black South African students. The sample included 606 students: 236 Grade 12, secondary school and 370 first year social science university students in South Africa. Results indicate a reasonable percentage of health-promoting lifestyles with a mean of 2.72. Secondary school students reported more overall health-promoting lifestyles than did university students. Multiple stepwise regression identified the Lie scale, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism as independent predictors for the total HPLP; Extraversion, gender and group (=secondary or university students) were excluded.

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