Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Applied Gerontology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Keith, P. M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Correlates of Change in Perceptions of Nursing Facilities Among Volunteers

Pat M. Keith

Iowa State University

The image of nursing facilities by the public is largely negative. Change in perceptions of nursing facilities is not often studied. The author investigated whether individuals would change their views of nursing facilities in response to volunteer activities in an ombudsman program and identified factors associated with transitions in perceptions as well as qualitative types of change. More than 60% of 778 men and women attributed their altered views of nursing facilities to volunteering. Factors associated with changes in perceptions were markedly different for men and women. Identification of correlates of change may assist administrators of volunteer programs in addressing experiences that may encourage more positive perceptions of settings in which volunteers work.

Key Words: nursing facilities • ombudsman program • volunteers • attitude change

Journal of Applied Gerontology, Vol. 24, No. 2, 125-141 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0733464804271546
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?