The Relationships among Knowledge, Attitude, and Preparing to ASEAN Community among Nursing Students, Kuakarun Faculty of Nursing, Navamindradhiraj University

Abstract

This study was the descriptive research. The objective was to investigate the relationships among  knowledge,  attitude, and preparing to ASEAN community among nursing students, Kuakarun Faculty of Nursing, Navamindradhiraj University. The population composed of 809 students from first, second, third and fourth academic year in 2013 and stratified random sampling by proportions from each year, the sample composed of 293 students. The research instruments used in this study were the knowledge, attitude, and preparing to ASEAN community questionnaire which was developed by researcher. They were validated by 5 experts, the result of Content Validity Index (CVI) were 0.85, 0.93 and 0.86 respectively, reliability of KR-20 and Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient were 0.56, 0.89 and 0.92 respectively. Data analysis was using  descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient.

           This research found that knowledge about ASEAN community among nursing students, Kuakarun Faculty of Nursing , Navamindradhiraj University from overall was at moderate level, attitude to ASEAN community was at a good  level and preparing to ASEAN  community was at moderate level. The second year of nursing students had the highest mean score in all components, because they studied ASEAN Socio-Cultural in the last year and when compared between each other year found that the knowledge about ASEAN community was significantly different (p<.05), Attitude  to ASEAN community was not different between academic year, preparing to ASEAN community was significantly different (p<.05), in overall the knowledge and preparing to ASEAN community was not significantly different, and attitude was positively significantly related with preparing to ASEAN community (r = .269)  (p<.05)