The Effect of Peer Education on the Knowledge and Skill Levels of Nursing Students

Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Students; Nursing

Treatments: Other: control group; Other: Peer education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06504745

255515

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was planned to determine the impact of peer education and instruction received from the instructor on the knowledge and skill levels of students in the physical assessment of the newborn.

Full description

Nursing education is a process that involves the transfer of theoretical knowledge, skills, and attitudes based on cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains into clinical practice.The aim is to train nurses who are capable of evidence-based intervention in line with holistic care principles in clinical settings. However, the process of transferring theoretical knowledge and skills acquired by students into clinical practices takes place in complex social environments in clinics, unlike traditional classroom settings.

Among student-centered teaching methods, 'peer education' has gained considerable attention in recent years. If peer-to-peer education can attain similar learning outcomes as standard teaching methods, it is believed that it can be applied to learning objectives encompassing many professional knowledge and skill techniques.

Physical examination of the newborn requires considerable knowledge, skill and experience.

This situation is known to impose limitations on nursing students in applying and learning newborn care based on atraumatic care principles in clinical settings. Additionally, the fear of causing harm to the newborn or inflicting pain experienced by nursing students creates emotional and mental stress situations, making it difficult for the instructor to teach and reinforce care practices in newborn nursing.

Therefore, this study was planned to compare the difference between peer educators and instructors in the physical examination of newborns in nursing students.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over 18 years
• Volunteer to participate in the study
• 4th-year nursing students

Exclusion criteria

• Non-volunteering

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Peer educator students group (a group of six senior nursing students), provided Newborn Physical Assessment training to 4th-year students in the nursing laboratory every week. Each training was conducted with a group of 5 students. This each training consisted of 30 minutes of theoretical presentation using a PowerPoint presentation material and 20 minutes of skills application on a newborn model, totaling 50 minutes. Before the training, the NPA-KT was administered, and the students' skills were evaluated using the NPA-SCL. At the end of the training, the NPA-KT and the Peer Support Scale were administered to the students. Three weeks after the training, the students' knowledge levels were re-evaluated using the NPA-KT.

Treatment:

Other: Peer education

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The researchers provided Newborn Physical Assessment training to 4th-year students in the nursing laboratory every week. Each training was conducted with a group of 5 students. This training consisted of 30 minutes of theoretical presentation using a PowerPoint presentation material and 20 minutes of skills application on a newborn model, totaling 50 minutes. Before the training, the NPA-KT was administered, and the students' skills were evaluated using the NPA-SCL. At the end of the training, the NPA-KT and the Peer Support Scale were administered to the students. Three weeks after the training, the students' knowledge levels were re-evaluated using the NPA-KT.

Treatment:

Other: control group