The Determinants of Positive Teamwork Attitudes: An Analysis of Age, Gender, and Academic Progression Among Nigerian Nursing Students

Background: Positive teamwork attitudes are crucial components of effective interprofessional collaboration, which is crucial to promoting patient safety and quality healthcare, with these attitudes being developed and influenced during the formative years of professional education. Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the determinants of positive teamwork attitudes, specifically examining the influence of age, gender, and academic progression among Nigerian nursing students. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used to examine 218 clinical nursing students from level two to five at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Each participant was selected using a stratified random sampling to ensure impartial. Data was collected using a structured, self-administered questionnaire that was adapted from Huyen's (2010) questionnaire. Each instrument had a section focusing on socio-demographic characteristics of each student and an attitude scale to measure their perceptions of teamwork learning skills. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to check whether or not any associations between the determinants and attitude scores were significant with SPSS version 27.0.