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Relationship Between Disaster Response Self-Efficacy and Disaster Preparedness in Nursing Students: After-Earthquake Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2024

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Zehra Demirkaya
Eda Kılınç İşleyen*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Health Science, Public Health Nursing Department, Uşak University, Uşak, Türkiye
Zehra Demirkaya
Affiliation:
Faculty of Health Science, Nursing Department, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Türkiye
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Corresponding author: Eda Kılınç İşleyen; Email: eda.isleyen@usak.edu.tr
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Abstract

Objective:

This study was conducted to reveal the relationship between nursing students’ disaster response self-efficacy and their disaster preparedness perceptions.

Methods:

This cross-sectional study was conducted on nursing students after a major earthquake that occurred in Turkey on February 6, 2023 (n = 302). Data collection took place from June 2023 to October 2023, using the Disaster Response Self-Efficacy Scale (DRSES) and Disaster Preparedness Perception Scale (DPPS). Descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test, correlation, and multiple linear regression analysis were used to analyze the data.

Results:

Nursing students’ DRSES mean score was 63.35 ± 10.83 (moderate level) and DPPS mean score was 3.41 ± 0.50 (high level). A positive and moderate correlation was found between nursing students’ DRSES and DPPS scores (r = 0.515; P = 0.000). Predictors affecting nursing students’ disaster preparedness are disaster response self-efficacy score, being male, and making a family disaster plan.

Conclusions:

The results of this study highlight the importance of increasing the disaster response self-efficacy needed by nursing students to successfully assist patients in disaster situations.

Keywords

disastersself-efficacyemergency preparednessearthquakesnursing students
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 18 , 2024 , e83
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc

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