Nurses' and students' perception of risk from medical practices

作     者：Yuko Adachi Yuya Kikuchi Yuko Adachi;Yuya Kikuchi

作者机构：Department of PsychologyFaculty of Human RelationsTokaigakuin UniversityNakakirino-cho 5-68KakamigaharaGifu 504-8511Japan Department of AcupunctureFaculty of Health Care SciencesTakarazuka University of Medical and Health CareHanayashiki-midorigaoka 1TakarazukaHyogo 666-0162Japan Graduate School of Human SciencesOsaka UniversityYamadaoka 1-2SuitaOsaka 565-0871Japan 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Nursing Sciences》 (国际护理科学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2017年第4卷第2期

页      面：142-151页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 1011[医学-护理学（可授医学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grand No. 26870324) 

主　　题：Medical practices Nurse Risk perception Risk acceptance Students 

摘      要：Objectives: To determine the risk perceptions of a series of medical practices in non-expert (un-dergraduates) and expert (nurses) ***: Four hundred and forty-seven nurses and 246 undergraduate students participated in this study. They all answered questionnaires about the risk dimensions and acceptance for medical practices. Results: An exploratory factor analysis on participants answers to various dimensions of risk yielded a two-factor structure for risk perception in both samples: for nurses, the factors wereUnknownandDread,while for students, they wereDreadandLack of Independence.For both nurses and stu-dents, the factor scores of Dread negatively related to individual risk acceptance of medical practices. Furthermore, nurses tended to be more accepting of practices that they knew well (i.e., low Unknown scale scores). For students, the subscale scores of the Lack of Independence factor negatively related to individual risk acceptance only for health examination practices. Nurses conceived risks more correctly and concretely compared to students. This was especially pronounced for practices related to medication use. Conclusions: Although both nurses and students conceived various risk contents from medical practices, their conceptions still differed. Knowledge of these differences in the structure of risk perception and conceived risk contents of various medical practices between nurses and students could be utilized to improve risk communication in clinical practice.