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ArticleMedicine2019

Simulated directed-learning in life-education intervention on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being among nursing students: A Quasi-experimental study.

Fu-Ju Tsai, Yih-Jin Hu, Cheng-Yu Chen, Gwo-Liang Yeh, Chie-Chien Tseng, Si-Chi Chen

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Article in Medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fu-Ju TsaiDepartment of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan R.O.C.
Yih-Jin HuDepartment of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan R.O.C.
Cheng-Yu ChenDepartment of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan R.O.C.
Gwo-Liang YehDepartment of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan R.O.C.
Chie-Chien TsengDepartment of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan R.O.C.
Si-Chi ChenDepartment of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan R.O.C.
University of Florida · USFooyin University · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nursing educators have the responsibility to equip nursing students with knowledge about the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being in order to enhance their physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health education and promotion. The purpose of this study was to explore nursing students' simulated directed-learning in a life-education intervention on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being in regard to immediate and delayed effects in improving physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health education and promotion.The method of this study was constituted a quasi-experimental design with experimental and control groups for pre-test, post-test, and post-post-test. Purposive sampling and non-random distribution were used in the study. Assigned to the experimental group, 54 participants were third-year nursing students enrolled in a health education course with simulated directed-learning in a life-education intervention. Assigned to the control group, 56 participants were third-year nursing students enrolled in a caring care course without simulated directed-learning in a life-education intervention. A 56-item questionnaire was utilized, and the content validity index (CVI) was 0.95, as determined by seven expert scholars. The reliability of the questionnaire (n = 45) on Cronbach's α were: meaning of life 0.96, positive beliefs 0.95, and well-being 0.96. The statistical package SPSS 23.0 was used to analyze all of the data in the study. Frequencies, percentages, pre-test mean and SD, post-test mean and SD, post-post-test mean and SD, chi-squared test, t test, and generalized estimating equation (GEE) were employed for data analysis.Nursing students in the experimental group compared with the control group exhibited significant differences in meaning of life on the pre-post-test (β = 16.40, P < .001) and pre-post post-test (β = 25.94, P < .001), positive beliefs on the pre-post-test (β = 5.64, P < .01) and pre-post post-test (β = 9.21, P < .001), and well-being on the pre-post-test (β = 14.33, P < .001) and pre-post post-test (β = 23.68, P < .001).Nursing students in the experimental group showed a significant improvement in the simulated directed-learning with a life-education intervention on meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being in the immediate and delayed effects that enhanced their physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health education and promotion.

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Attitude to HealthPersonal SatisfactionQuality of LifeAdolescentFemaleHumansMaleSimulation TrainingStudents, NursingYoung Adult

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PMID31277181
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