Determining Nurses Perceptions of Disaster Preparedness

OpenAlex İngilizce

Objective: This research was conducted to determine the disaster preparedness perceptions of nurses working at Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital. Material and Methods: The sample of the descriptive study consisted of 302 nurses. Data were collected with a Personal Information Form and the Disaster Preparedness Perception Scale for Nurses. In the evaluation of the data, number, percentage, mean, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, and Spearman correlation analysis were used. Results: The mean age of the nurses was determined to be 25.88±2.21 and 62.3% were female. 73.8% of the nurses defined themselves as partially prepared for disasters. The total mean score of the Disaster Preparedness Perception Scale for nurses was determined as 73.278±13.23. The mean scores of the sub-dimensions of the scale were; preparedness sub-dimension 25.70±4.16, intervention sub-dimension 30.20±7.39 and post-disaster subdimension 17.37±4.95. According to the socio-demographic characteristics of the nurses; the mean scores of the Disaster Preparedness Perception Scale and sub-dimension of the singles, those between the ages of 24-27, those working in surgical and emergency services, those participating in disaster drills and those receiving disaster training were found to be higher than the others (p