The relationship between emotional empathy, self-acceptance and interest in disaster nursing of the nursing students who recently-enrolled in the university

The purpose of this survey was to clarify relationship between emotional empathy, self-acceptance and interest in disaster nursing of the nursing students who recently-enrolled in the university. The participants were the first year students at the nursing university, and questionnaire survey was conducted in June, ２００９. There were ６０ response rate, ８０．０％ of the nursing students responded that they were interested in disaster nursing. Those students of ２２．９％ knew the meaning of “triage”, and ５０．０％ of them knew the posttraumatic stress disorder. The students who answered that they have desire to participate in the disaster rescue and nursing positively when becoming registered nurse in the future were４６（７６．７％）. Therefore, it was suggested that the necessity for educating basic principle of disaster nursing at the earliest time after entering university. Moreover, there was significant differences in students who had answered that want to participate in the disaster nursing and others who had not answered so （５９．９８±５．９８ vs. ５５．５７±６．６０; P＝０．０３）in the emotional-warmth. There was also a significant difference in the emotional-coolness（２２．００±７．６４ vs. ３０．１４± １０．５５; P＝０．０１）. Also, there tended to be a difference in self-acceptance（SA）of the students who interested in disaster nursing, and the students who was not so （１９．２７±４．１４ vs. １６．２５±５．２６; P＝ ０．０７）. Consequently, it was considered to contribute to helping students, and to improve level of SA to increase student’s awareness of the disaster nursing.