The state of clinical education and factors affecting effective clinical education: the point of view of nursing and midwifery students

• Published in: BMC medical education 2023-12, Vol.23 (1), p.967-967, Article 967
• Main Authors: Asadi, Mohammadreza, Noorian, Sajad, Motefakker, Sanaz, Heydari, Fatemeh, Shahsavari, Neda, Senmar, Mojtaba
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Beliefs, opinions and attitudes; Clinical; Clinical medicine; Cronbach's alpha; Data Analysis; Delivery of Health Care; Education; Educational Environment; Educational Planning; Educational Status; Female; Humans; Learning; Male; Medical research; Midwifery; Midwifery - education; Nursing; Nursing education; Nursing Students; Pregnancy; Questionnaires; Sample size; Social aspects; Student; Students; Students, Nursing; Study and teaching; Surveys and Questionnaires
• ISSN: 1472-6920; 1472-6920
• DOI: 10.1186/s12909-023-04957-z

Clinical education is the basis of education in medical sciences. Clinical education, as the essence of education in nursing and midwifery, promotes social health, improves health care, and reduces mortality. Considering the position of nursing and midwifery, investigating the views of students in this field can be an effective step in improving clinical education. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the status of clinical education and the factors affecting effective clinical education from the point of view of nursing and midwifery students. A descriptive-analytical study was conducted among nursing and midwifery students at Qazvin University of Medical Sciences in 2022-2023. Using available sampling, 242 students were included in the study. Students were included in the study if they completed at least one unit of in-person internship. Refusing to continue the study for any reason and having a practical nurse certificate were the criteria for exclusion from the study. The data collection tools included a demographic information questionnaire, a questionnaire to assess the status of clinical education, and a questionnaire on factors affecting effective clinical education. The data were analysed with descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS 20 software. The mean age of the participants in this study was 21.66 ± 2.25. A total of 180 (74.4%) of the participants were women, and the rest were men. The results showed that the general condition of clinical education is at an average level (103.16 ± 19.21). It was also found that the clinical education status of midwifery students was better than that of nursing students, and this difference was significant (p = 0.003). Among the fields of clinical education, the highest score belonging to the field of objectives and planning was reported on the average level (34.39 ± 6.66). Among the factors affecting effective clinical education, the highest score was given to the field of personal characteristics of the student (33.97 ± 5.99). The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the grades of the general state of clinical education with the academic semester (p = 0.001) and interest in the field of study (p