Determination of nursing students' tendency to violence

Purpose: The study aims at analysing nursing students’ tendency to violence. Materials and Methods: The population of the descriptive and cross-sectional study consisted of 1329 nursing students who continue their education at Cukurova University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department. Without applying any further criteria, the whole population was included in the study. The sample consisted of 789 students (59.3%). “Personal Information Form” and “Violence Tendency Scale (VTS)” were used as data collection tools. Results: Mean age of the students was20.58±1.88 and 68.9% of them were female. VTS average score for the participants was 38.79±9.32 and according to the scale 71.1% have “Low” level of tendency to violence. Statistically significant correlations were found between students’ average scores for VTS and their year at the university, their gender, smoking and alcohol consumption, history of inflicting violence on themselves or others and being subject to violence. Conclusion: The study indicated that nursing students’ tendency to violence is low and the students who have experiences of inflicting violence on themselves or others or have been exposed to violence before have higher tendency to violence when compared with the students who do not have such experiences.