3 Method
This descriptive and exploratory study was conducted with a sample of 144 last-semester (fourth year) undergraduate
nursing students from two private schools in a city in São Paulo, Brazil. In this group, 84 students belonged to “School A”
and 60 students to “School B”. Sample inclusion criteria were: students in the last year of the undergraduate course and
acceptance to participate in the research.
Ethical considerations
The ethical aspects observed in this research were the approval of the project by the Institutional Review Board at the
University of São Paulo Medical School Hospital das Clínicas and the subjects’ signing of the free and informed consent
term.