Iran Journal of Nursing

  This Survey is a field study done for the purpose of investigation and comparison of the attitude of the students of nursing and those of their parents located in the city of Semnan. The study concerns their selected field of study in the year 1993. In this study, fifty students of nursing and

  their parents were chosen. The tool for the gathering of data in this field study has been questionnaire in which were included certain questions concerning sample's personal characteristics, and some other questions to determine their attitude. Such questionnaire was devised by the researcher and responded by the samples. The findings were arranged in 23 tables.

  In order to reach conclusions, "X2 statistical tests were used". In this survey, the relationship between parents' attitude and those of the students of nursing as related to the individual characteristics were indicative of the existence of a difference between parents' attitude and those of the students of nursing. Thus, the hypothesis of the study expressing the difference existing between the attitudes of the parents and students of nursing locating in the city of Semnan relating their selected field was supported. The results of the survey were also indicative of the fact that the majority of the units under investigation had a positive attitude. A Considerable percentage of the three groups, however, had a negative attitude also.

  Additionally, the results obtained concerning determination of the relationship among individual characteristics of the units in question as compared with the findings from the whole survey showed that there existed a significant connection between sex and students attitude. And there was a more positive attitude among the females than among males. Furthermore, there has been observed a significant correlation between the profession of fathers and their respective attitudes. And there has been a significant correlation among the two groups of parents: those with spouse and those without spouse. In other instances, no significant correlation was observed among the individual characteristics and the attitude of the respondents. The researcher was offered some recommendations for the application of the findings in education and in Clinical nursing together with some rcommendations further research studies. All of which are established on the basis of the results obtained from the survey. It is hoped that this study and its results could encourage