| Publication Type |
thesis |
| School or College |
College of Nursing |
| Department |
Nursing |
| Author |
Beeson, Merry C. |
| Title |
An exploratory study of computer anxiety in nurses. |
| Date |
1986-06 |
| Description |
This research focused on the interactions of nurses with computer technology and existence of anxiety. The problems investigated were: "Does computer anxiety exit in a selected population of nurses?," "Does exposure to computers reduce computer anxiety?," and "Is there a demographic profile that describes the computer anxious nurse?" Data were gathered using two self-report questionnaires: (a) demographic characteristics and questions about exposure to computers and (b) the Oetting Computer Anxiety Scale. All registered nurses (RNs) employed in a 750-bed tertiary-care hospital in a city of 500,000 were invited to participate. Of 600 RNs, 207 volunteered to participate. As a group, nurses were somewhat more anxious than the normative population and no descriptive profile describing a computer-anxious nurse was revealed. Persons reporting history of formal computer coursework evidenced less anxiety than the normative population or other nurses. It is this research's contention that deliberate instruction in computers reduces computer anxiety. |
| Type |
Text |
| Publisher |
University of Utah |
| Subject |
Manpower; Data Processing |
| Subject MESH |
Nursing;; Attitude to Computers; Anxiety |
| Dissertation Institution |
University of Utah |
| Dissertation Name |
MS |
| Language |
eng |
| Relation is Version of |
Digital reproduction of "An Exploratory study of computer anxiety in nurses." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "An Exploratory study of computer anxiety in nurses." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RT 2.5 1986 B43. |
| Rights Management |
© Merry C. Beeson. |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Identifier |
us-etd2,2438 |
| Source |
Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available). |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s69g62f2 |
| Setname |
ir_etd |
| ID |
193822 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69g62f2 |
