Awareness of sustainable development and food waste attitudes among nursing students: a cross-sectional correlational study

IF 3.6 2区医学 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Nurse Education Today Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI:10.1016/j.nedt.2025.106747

Aslıhan Çeliker , Müjde Çalikuşu İncekar

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Abstract

Background

The International Council of Nurses aims to empower nurses to take leadership roles in promoting sustainable practices within healthcare organizations and to lead sustainable development initiatives in healthcare by emphasizing that sustainable development should be part of nursing curricula and continuing education.

Objectives

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between nursing students' sustainable development awareness and food waste attitudes. In addition, it was aimed to compare the descriptive characteristics of the students (gender, class, sibling and receiving education about sustainable development goals) and these two concepts.

Design

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between sustainable development awareness and waste attitudes among nursing students as a cross-sectional correlational study.

Participants

The target audience of this study was undergraduate nursing students studying at Yuksek Ihtisas University in the 2022–2023 academic year. A total of 150 volunteer nursing students participated in the study using the convenience sampling method.

Methods

Participants were administered an Introductory Information Form, a valid and reliable Sustainable Development Awareness Scale, and a valid and reliable Food Waste Attitude Scale.

Participants completed Introductory Information Form, Sustainable Development Awareness Scale and Food Waste Attitude Scale. Spearman correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the two scales.

Results

In this study, 84.7 % of the students were female, 15.3 % were male, and the mean age was determined as 20.93 ± 1.45 years. Sustainable development awareness scale and food waste attitudes scale scores among nursing students was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.05). It was found that female students (p < 0.05) and 4th grade students (p < 0.01) had high sustainable development awareness. It was found that female students and students with siblings had high food waste attitudes (p < 0.05).

Conclusions

This study presents the relationship between sustainable development goals and food waste, emphasizing the importance of including sustainable development goals in the curriculum of nursing students.

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Nurse Education Today 医学-护理

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

12.80%

发文量

349

审稿时长

58 days

期刊介绍： Nurse Education Today is the leading international journal providing a forum for the publication of high quality original research, review and debate in the discussion of nursing, midwifery and interprofessional health care education, publishing papers which contribute to the advancement of educational theory and pedagogy that support the evidence-based practice for educationalists worldwide. The journal stimulates and values critical scholarly debate on issues that have strategic relevance for leaders of health care education. The journal publishes the highest quality scholarly contributions reflecting the diversity of people, health and education systems worldwide, by publishing research that employs rigorous methodology as well as by publishing papers that highlight the theoretical underpinnings of education and systems globally. The journal will publish papers that show depth, rigour, originality and high standards of presentation, in particular, work that is original, analytical and constructively critical of both previous work and current initiatives. Authors are invited to submit original research, systematic and scholarly reviews, and critical papers which will stimulate debate on research, policy, theory or philosophy of nursing and related health care education, and which will meet and develop the journal''s high academic and ethical standards.