Importance of incorporating measures of attitude in planning and evaluating nursing education
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Learners' attitudes towards a topic or behavior has long been recognized as an important component in the evaluation of formal education as well as in achieving desired behavior change. However, attitudes are frequently neglected and evaluation of outcomes from continuing nursing education often includes only changes in knowledge and learner satisfaction. We describe measurement of attitudes of oncology nurses towards holding discussions with patients about the option of participating in a clinical trial, in comparison to what can be learned from measuring knowledge alone. This article illustrates important insights that can be gained through inclusion of measures of attitude in both designing and evaluating continuing education using data from a larger on-going study.
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Incorporating attitudinal factors into the design and evaluation of program outcomes is particularly relevant for behaviors influenced by a strong foundation of knowledge and favorable attitudes toward those behaviors.
“Incorporating attitudinal factors into the design and evaluation of program outcomes is particularly relevant for behaviors influenced by a strong foundation of knowledge and favorable attitudes toward those behaviors (Daly et al., 2019).”
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Tiraieyari, N., & Krauss, S. (2026) · Frontiers in Education · doi:10.3389/feduc.2026.1518053
- Authors
- Daly, B. J., Nock, N., Margevicius, S., & Meropol, N. J.
- Affiliations
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Flatiron Health (United States) (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Nursing Education and Practice
- Published
- 2018-11-26
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1
- ISSN
- 1925-4040 (ISSN-L)
- 1925-4059
- PMC
- PMC7453751
- OpenAlex
- W2902984524
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 0.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Nursing Education and Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (R25CA177574)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
- Social Sciences › Education › Health Education and Validation
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Sciences Research and Education
- Keywords
- nursing attitudes, continuing nursing education, oncology nurses, clinical trial participation, attitude measurement, education evaluation, behavior change
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