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:: Volume 26, Issue 1 (spring 2016) ::
MEDICAL SCIENCES 2016, 26(1): 36-45 Back to browse issues page
Effects of peer education on clinical skills in nursing students, including interns and trainees
Shiva Salehi 1, Mahboubeh Safavi2 , Soheila Mashoof3 , Samaneh Parchebafieh4 , Mohammad Fesharaki5
1- PhD Student of Health in Disaster and Emergency, Faculty of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Department of Nursing, Tehran Medical sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , salehi.shiva@yahoo.com
2- PhD in Health Services Management, Department of Nursing ,Tehran Medical sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3- PhD Student in Health Services Management, Department of Nursing, Tehran Medical sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University,Tehran, Iran
4- PhD Student in Nursing, Tarbiat Modarres University; Department of Nursing, Tehran Medical sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
5- Department of Nursing, Tehran Medical sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Background: Learning from peers is an authentic way to improve psychomotor skills and to reduce stress, in which monitoring the implementation of clinical skills, doing practice, strengthening sense of responsibility and active participation and privates take responsibility for their learning are performed. It can prepare them for their future roles and has lower cost compared to other methods. The purpose of this study was to define the effects of peer education on learning clinical skills in nursing students (interns and trainees).

Materials and methods: In this semi-experimental study, 71 internship and 84 trainees were randomly divided into intervention and control groups. One researcher- made questionnaire was used to collect data to evaluate the clinical skills (40 questions consisting of two parts 20 questions about the standard of care and 20 questions standard clinical skill) before and after Internships. Content validity was used for testing validity and test-retest for reliability.

Results: Mean (± standard deviation) score of clinical skills in intern students were 39.18±0.628 in the intervention group and 32.23 ±3.77 in the control group (P<0.0001). Mean (± standard deviation) score of clinical skills in the trainees of the intervention group was 36.94±2.45 and in the control group was 32.73± 4.40 (P<0.0001).

Conclusion: peer education is effective in teaching clinical skills and promotion of clinical education among junior students as well as own peer students.

Keywords: Peer education, Learning clinical skills.

Keywords: Peer education, Learning clinical skills.
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Received: 2015/08/5 | Accepted: 2015/11/7 | Published: 2016/03/15
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Salehi S, Safavi M, Mashoof S, Parchebafieh S, Fesharaki M. Effects of peer education on clinical skills in nursing students, including interns and trainees. MEDICAL SCIENCES 2016; 26 (1) :36-45
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Volume 26, Issue 1 (spring 2016) Back to browse issues page
فصلنامه علوم پزشکی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد پزشکی تهران Medical Science Journal of Islamic Azad Univesity - Tehran Medical Branch
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