Psychology and behavior investigation of student nurses in contact with syphilis patients

Objective To investigate the psychological and behavioral change of student nurses after contacting with syphilis patients and to seek the measures to improve the awareness of related knowledge , in order to help them overcome the psychological fear and to strengthen their protection awareness .Methods A self-designed questionnaire on syphilis-related knowledge was used to randomly survey 100 student nurses who were in clinical practice at our hospital .Results In the 100 questionnaires , most of student nurses had poor-mastering knowledge on syphilis .84% student nurses were afraid of being infected with syphilis , and 92%student nurses would wash hands and disinfection after caring of syphilis patients .Conclusions The student nurses have relatively poor knowledge on syphilis , so the education on syphilis should be paid much more attention, as well as the education of professional ethics .Thus, the student nurses can improve the awareness of self-protection , and provide syphilis patients with better meticulous nursing care . Key words: Student,nursing; Syphilis; Psychology; Behavior