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A Preliminary Survey on Chinese Nursing Students’ Knowledge, Attitude, and
Practice Regarding Trauma Informed Care

D. Zhang, P. Songwathana, and H. Sangchan 1
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Faculty of Nursing, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
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Background: Patients with a history of traumatic life events who enter the healthcare system are
especially vulnerable, often posing greater challenges to health care workers including
nursing students. However, little is known about the capacity to care for the effects of trauma or
trauma-informed care among nursing students.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice on trauma-informed
care among Chinese nursing students.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was employed with 117 nursing students from a medical college
in eastern China. Data were collected by using a self-administered questionnaire consisting of
demographics and selected features and the knowledge, attitude, and practice related to
trauma-informed care. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis.

Results: The mean scores for knowledge, attitude, and practice were 68.34±13.90, 77.97±10.22, and
66.42±11.55, respectively. Regarding knowledge, 39.1% of participants were unaware of common
trauma exposure and only 34.3% of them didn’t understand or unsure why substance use issues are
linked to past traumatic experiences. Regarding attitude, 69.3% agreed that recovery from trauma is
possible. For practice, the less likely to do was about maintaining transparency in all interactions with
traumatic patients (28.2%), while the most likely to do was to inform all patients of the actions before
intervention (53.9%). However, 94.0% of them thought it was necessary to provide nursing students
training or education related to trauma-informed care.

Conclusion: The knowledge, attitude, and practice level on trauma-informed care was general and
required further strengthening. A special course with supportive strategies in education for nursing
students in trauma-informed care is then necessary. Further research should focus on determine the
teaching and learning methods to improve or upskill of trauma-informed care for Chinese nursing
students.

Keywords: nursing students, knowledge, attitude, practices, trauma-informed care

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Correspondence: Praneed Songwathana, Faculty of Nursing, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Poster Presentation Abstracts
E-mail: praneed.s@psu.ac.th

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