Resumen

TORRES, Aída et al. Desarrollo moral en estudiantes de medicina y enfermeria de la Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA) - Venezuela. RFM [online]. 2010, vol.33, n.1, pp.36-41. ISSN 0798-0469.

A non experimental correlational study was conducted for purposes of establishing a possible relationship between moral development and academic level of Health Science students from Universidad Centro-Occidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA), Barquisimeto Venezuela. A probabilistic and stratified sample consisting of 131 students, 87 from the Medicine School and 44 from the Nursing School was used. An adapted version of the "Defining Issues Test" (DIT) was run to assess the group moral development. Such test is a version of the three dilemma model which was translated and validated to the Venezuelan context. According to test results, students have a conventional moral development and a moral principles index (Index P) similar to those obtained from Latin-American samples. Non-significant relationship between the moral development and academic level was found. Also, test results set the basis for justifying and designing a new curriculum for the students of the University’s Health Science Faculty based on moral development.

Palabras clave : Moral development; Medicine and nursing school students; Moral education.