Filipino elderlies' perception on abuse: Their safety status and treatment of social networks

Background and Objectives@#Elderly Filipinos have four important concerns: security in old age, health status, impact of aging, and elder abuse. Elder abuse committed in their homes or in their community is alarming. How their social networks (their family, friends, relatives, and significant others) treat them plays a crucial role in their well-being. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions on elder abuse and the safety status of Filipino older persons along with the treatment afforded to them by their social networks. The study also determined such perception to be able to devise a cost effective, community-based interventions to address elder abuse. @*Methodology@#The study used mixed methods design and the Experience of Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI) tool, a questionnaire along with the demographic profile of the participants. The results were tallied and analyzed using descriptive statistics. How social networks treat them and their safety status were explored using researcher-made open-ended questions analyzed using the qualitative approach. @*Results and Conclusion@#Findings revealed the perceptions of Filipino older persons on elder abuse, with participants from the 60-69 age group, predominantly female, with no work, and have low monthly income. The major themes generated from the qualitative findings were relationship issues with the self, environment, coping, abuses, and values. Several sub-themes were also discovered and were related to the findings. An awareness campaign on the issue of elder abuse in Philippine society was recommended. Educating social networks about the perils of abuse is crucial in maintaining the safety of older persons. A monitoring system must be developed at the barangay level and policies must be put in place to address the concerns of elder abuse.

Relationship between level of readiness for self-directed learning and learning styles of CEU nursing students

This study aimed to assess the level of readiness of student nurses for self-directed learning and their learning styles. It also determined the relationship between the two factors and the relationship of each factor to the respondents' demographic profile. This descriptive- correlational study utilized the Autonomous Learner Index of Abu- Moghli, Khalaf, Halabi & Wardam (2005) to assess the students' level of readiness in self-directed learning, and the Learning Style Inventory of Kolb & Kolb (2005) to assess their learning style type. No sampling technique was used because total population was included covering all 103 regular nursing students of Centro Escolar University for First semester of academic year 2016-2017. The study underwent Ethics Review Board Approval before it was implemented. Results of the study revealed that most of the nursing students were independent learners (52%). There were no dependent learners but since there were several respondents who were uncertain (48%), it is the role of nurse educators to develop their independence in learning. Moreover, all the four types of learning styles namely: Accommodative, Convergent, Assimilative and Divergent; were present showing the variation in learning styles of nursing students. But it was found out that they mostly prefer the Convergent learning style, especially the junior and senior students. The study concluded that there was no relationship between the variables: demographic profile, self-directed learning readiness and learning style. However, the scores of convergent learning style were higher than that of divergent and accommodative in their self-directed learning readiness.