PILOT STUDY OF NURSING STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE TOWARDS GENETIC TOPICS
ABSTRACT: Nowadays, the
science of genetics in Indonesia has not touched the world of nursing education
and practice in health care. As the first step in order to introduce genetics
topic into nursing education, an assessment is needed to identify student’s
knowledge and comfort toward genetics topic.
Purpose: The aim of this pilot study was to identify nursing students’
knowledge about genetics.
Methods: Research design used in this pilot study was descriptive with
cross-sectional approach. The survey was conducted using a questionnaire that
adopted and adapted from “The Genetic Needs Assessment Survey” developed by
Maradique et.al. This questionnaire was distributed to nursing students at one
state school of nursing in Central Java, Indonesia.
Result: There were 170 nursing students participated in the pilot study.
Descriptive statistic was performed and the results indicated that they were
lack of knowledge about genetics topic. Most of students were not familiar to
genetic terms, for example locus, missense mutation, nonsense mutation,
frameshift mutation, and karyotype. Students were not comfortable to use OMIM
and draw pedigree. Respondents argued that more education strategy could be
applied to improve student knowledge and understanding of the genetics.
Conclusion: Introduction and recognition of genetics topic in nursing
education was needed. Integration of genetics topic into nursing education can
be applied by the existing subject or by itself subject to students; either
individually or classically.
Penulis: Meira Erawati, Niken
SD Kusumaningrum
Journal Code: jpkeperawatangg150005

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