SUBJECTIVITY OF NURSING STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF SURROGATE MOTHER: Q-MEHTODOLOGY

Abstract

This study is intended to find out the subjectivity of nursing students’ perception of surrogate mother, describe the characteristics for each type of subjectivity, and categorize the types of subjectivity. We applied the Q-methodology for this study. 16 students in junior and senior years in the nursing school at a certain university who have been on optional practical training have been asked to categorize 48 statements on surrogate mother. The collected data have been analyzed by QUANL PC Program. As result of this study, the nursing students’ perceptions were categorized into 3 types and the subjective types are ‘the type recognizing difficulties of implementing the practices of surrogate mother’, ‘the type emphasizing the adverse effect of surrogate mother’, and ‘the type advocating the practices of surrogate mother’. This study has been served as the basic material for figuring out views and education of nursing students regarding the practices of surrogate mother