Abstract

Self-efficacy has been reported to serve as a motivator for goal achievement and to impact care quality and career development choices. Understanding nursing students' self-efficacy to care for older adults can provide an opportunity to identify gaps and develop strategies to shape nursing students' interest in caring for older adults. This study sought to identify the relationship between nursing students' knowledge about, attitudes towards, and self-efficacy to care for older adults and explored nursing students' understanding of their self-efficacy to care for older adults. The study also examined stakeholders' perceptions about nursing students' self-efficacy to care for older adults and how these views shape gerontological nursing education and practice in Ghana. Bandura's self-efficacy theory guided this study.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 28963813; ProQuest document ID: 2646713608. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Diana Abudu-Birresborn, PhD, Mphil, BSc.

Sigma Membership

Lambda Pi at-Large

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

N/A

Research Approach

Mixed/Multi Method Research

Keywords:

Gerontological Nursing, Self-Efficacy, Nursing Education

Advisor

Lisa Cranley

Second Advisor

Martine Puts

Third Advisor

Lynn McCleary

Fourth Advisor

Vida Yakoung

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Toronto

Degree Year

2022

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2022-11-04

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