Poverty and health inequalities: Perceptions of social work students and nursing students

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dc.contributor.authorDemirtas B.
dc.contributor.authorPolat G.
dc.contributor.authorÖzalp Ateş F.S.
dc.contributor.authorKa‘opua L.S.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-22T08:04:43Z
dc.date.available2024-07-22T08:04:43Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractAim: This study describes student perceptions on health inequalities and causes of poverty. Background: As frontline providers, social workers and nurses are expected to engage with patients from socioeconomically diverse backgrounds. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a socio-demographic questionnaire, a questionnaire on health inequalities and the Perceived Causes of Poverty Scale were administered using a convenience sample of 155 students in social work and 266 students in nursing undergraduate programmes at a state university in Turkey. Mann–Whitney U test and Spearman correlation coefficient were used in the analysis of the data. Findings: Social work students were more likely to attribute the cause of poverty to social injustice and a lack of opportunities, whereas nursing students had more fatalistic explanations or beliefs, maintaining that outcomes are pre-determined and therefore cannot be changed. In both groups, those who agreed that there were problems and deficiencies in health service provision and that there was ill-health among poor groups were more likely to associate poverty with social injustice and lack of opportunities. Those without a systemic understanding of poverty and health inequalities showed a tendency to hold more individualistic/fate-related perspectives. Conclusion and implications for nursing and education policy: The nursing students, as compared to the social work students, tended to explain poverty more on the basis of individual responsibility and fatalism and were less likely to link poverty with health inequalities and to advocate for policies to end health inequalities. The students’ perceptions on the causes of poverty affected their views on health inequalities. These findings suggest the need to develop curricula that equip nursing students with an understanding of poverty as a systemic cause of health inequality. Health inequality and poverty need to be positioned at the centre of training curricula by professional accreditation bodies. Interdisciplinary collaboration is recommended to foster advocacy skills in students. Furthermore, transformative changes are needed in nursing and social work education to prepare students to adequately address the Social Determinants of Health. Curricula should incorporate leadership and political activism within courses to facilitate structural change. © 2021 International Council of Nurses
dc.identifier.DOI-ID10.1111/inr.12714
dc.identifier.issn00208132
dc.identifier.urihttp://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/12814
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Inc
dc.subjectCross-Sectional Studies
dc.subjectEducation, Nursing, Baccalaureate
dc.subjectHealth Status Disparities
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subjectSocial Work
dc.subjectStudents, Nursing
dc.subjectaccreditation
dc.subjectadult
dc.subjectarticle
dc.subjectcontrolled study
dc.subjectconvenience sample
dc.subjectcorrelation coefficient
dc.subjectcross-sectional study
dc.subjectdemography
dc.subjectfemale
dc.subjecthuman
dc.subjectleadership
dc.subjectmajor clinical study
dc.subjectmale
dc.subjectnursing education
dc.subjectnursing student
dc.subjectperception
dc.subjectpolitical activism
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectquestionnaire
dc.subjectrank sum test
dc.subjectresponsibility
dc.subjectskill
dc.subjectsocial determinants of health
dc.subjectsocial work
dc.subjectsocial work education
dc.subjectsocial work student
dc.subjectTurkey (republic)
dc.subjecthealth disparity
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.titlePoverty and health inequalities: Perceptions of social work students and nursing students
dc.typeArticle

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