Nursing Student Attitudes Toward Older Adults: Meta-Analysis of 64 Studies

64 studies from 11 countries, involving over 24,000 nursing students, were synthesized in this meta-analysis. The work, published by Wei Zhang on figshare, reports aggregated scores from two versions of the Kogan Attitudes Toward Old People (KAOP) scale. Results indicate nursing students' attitudes are generally positive and are influenced by factors like gender, prior geriatric coursework, and living with older persons.

Use Cases

• Analyze the impact of geriatric coursework on nursing student attitudes based on the described subgroup analysis
• Compare aggregate attitude scores across different countries based on the 11-country scope
• Investigate the relationship between personal experience with older adults and professional attitudes based on the identified influencing factors

Strengths

• Aggregates data from 64 individual studies, providing a broad evidence base
• Reports specific meta-analysis scores (e.g., KAOP 34–238 score of 146.41) with confidence intervals
• Includes subgroup analyses on key predictor variables like gender and student grade level

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The underlying data is a 52.2 KB DOCX file, suggesting limited raw data scope

Provenance

Source

Wei Zhang via figshare

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional surveys from eight databases.

Time Range

Studies searched from inception to July 4, 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 04:30:25

Geography

Studies from 11 countries (specific countries not listed).