Nurses' and students' perception of risk from medical practices.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the risk perceptions of a series of medical practices in non-expert (undergraduates) and expert (nurses) samples.

Methods

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 were "Unknown" and "Dread," while for students, they were "Dread" and "Lack of Independence." For both nurses and students, the factor scores of Dread negatively related to individual risk acceptance of medical practices. Furthermore, nurses tended to be

SUBMITTER: Adachi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6626126 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature