Knowledge, attitude and readiness to ASEAN community among nursing students at the faculty of nursing in private universities

Abstract

The objective of this descriptive research was to survey the knowledge, attitude and readiness to the ASEAN Community among nursing students at the faculty of nursing in private universities. The samples of 352 first year nursing students in the faculty of nursing from 10 private universities were selected using systematic random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire including four parts;                1) general information, 2) knowledge on ASEAN community, 3) attitude toward ASEAN community, and     4)   readiness to ASEAN community. The reliabilities coefficient of the part 2-4  were 0.764, 0.847 and 0.866 respectively. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results were as follows. 78.12 percent of the first year nursing students had knowledge on ASEAN community at the moderate level, their  attitude towards the ASEAN community at the high level ( = 3.76,  SD = 0.51), and their readiness to ASEAN community was at the  high level ( = 3.51, SD = 0.58).