The effect of a web-based course on nursing students’knowledge toward violence intervention

• Main Authors: Chiu-Hsuan, 李秋璇
• Other Authors: 盧燕嬌
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89156681866639542055

碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 護理研究所 === 98 === Online learning has attracted remarkable attention since the emergence of the internet technology and the development of relevant applications. Technological innovations have significantly changed the traditional learning style. The internet can serve as a learning medium and deliver educational materials to the target population. And the internet has also been widely used for medical and nursing education. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of an online violence intervention training course and a traditional course on nursing students’ knowledge toward dealing with aggressive patients. This study adopted the pretest/posttest experimental design. Seventy third-year nursing students from a private university located in central Taiwan were recruited and randomly assigned to either an experimental group (n=36) or a control group (n=34). The experimental group received a 50-minute online training course designed by a psychiatric nurse instructor whereas the control group received a traditional lecture by the same instructor. Students’ Knowledge toward Violence Intervention Scale (31 items) was administered to both groups on two separate occasions (pretest: 10 minutes before the lecture; posttest: 2 weeks after the lecture). The t-tests were performed to compare the control and the experimental groups on the Students’ Knowledge toward Violence Intervention Scale (SKTVIS) scores. The results showed that the posttest scores were significantly higher than pretest scores for both groups (t=3.36﹐p=0.002 and t=4.24﹐ p=0.000, respectively). However, the experimental group did not differ from the control group on the posttest scores (p = 0.515). In addition, a non-inferiority test was conducted to compare the posttest SKTVIS scores for both groups. The results indicated that experimental group was not inferior to the control group (p = 0.025). In conclusion, this research suggests that there are no apparent differences between the traditional course and online course of the violence intervention training course. Therefore, both the traditional and the online course can improve nursing students’ knowledge toward violence intervention. It is suggested that faculties and instructors should consider developing and evaluating online teaching courses as an alternate teaching method.