Abstract:

The research was done to identify the relationship between the pain beliefs and pain fears of nursing students. The data of the study was collected from 391 students who studied and participated in the research at the Department of Nursing of the Faculty of Health Sciences of a state university located in Ankara. In the collection of data, the indicative character form, the scale of pain beliefs, the scale of pain fear-III were used. In the analysis of the data, the numbers, percentage, average, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values were used by the Independent Groups t Test, One Direction ANOVA Test and Tukey Test. The relationship between scales and sub-dimensional points was analyzed by the Pearson correlation test. In the study, the average score of students' pain beliefs was 3.15±0. The 56th pain fear score was 2.86±0.57. There was a very weak negative relationship between pain beliefs and pain fear (r=-.105, p=0.038). Therefore, the pain fear of students with high beliefs is reduced. Also, students who link the cause of pain to psychological causes, the fear of severe pain decreases, the fear of slight pain increases. Students who link the cause of pain to organic causes have a slight pain fear and a medical pain fear reduced. Our study found that there was a significant difference between the students’ gender, the class they read, the condition of using pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods when they suffer from pain, and the frequency of pain living and the scale low-dimensional scores. The study suggests that pain beliefs and fear are addressed in the lesson and that the subject of pain assessment and approach to pain is integrated into care practices.

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