- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The comfort level and attitudes of African American graduate level social work students preparing to work with patients with infectious diseases, 2000
- Creator:
- Farris, Kimberly D.
- Date of Original:
- 2000-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study examines comfort level and attitudes of graduate level social work students preparing to provide services to patients with infectious diseases. It is hypothesized that second year Masters level students will maintain higher levels of comfort, and a greater level of positive attitudes in dealing with patients than first year Masters level students. Comfort level is defined as the ability to perform a task without any type of hesitation. Infectious disease is defined as a disease or virus that can be contracted through various modes of transmission. The setting for this study was Clark Atlanta University School of Social Work. The sample consisted of first and second year Masters level social work students, which included day and evening, lull and part-time status. Various internal and external validity, as well as reliability issues are addressed and considered to assist in minimizing bias. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data in order to determine differences between the two groups of students. Findings showed that there were little differences in comfort levels and attitudes between first and second year Masters level social work students.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2000_farris_kimberly_d
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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