Influence of Different Teaching Strategies on the Academic Performance and Caring of Nursing Students

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The participants in this study are college students with studying long-term care. After different teaching strategies, the students are hypothesised to improve their caring ability in the future and apply rhythmic muscle training programmes. Therefore, this study will explore the relationship amongst three different teaching strategies of nursing students through multimedia audio-visual, multimedia audio-visual and experiential learning programmes and teachers' personal demonstration and experiential learning, as well as identify their relationship with caring ability.

Official Title
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Influence of Different Teaching Strategies on the Academic Performance and Caring of Nursing Students

Conditions
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Nursing Students, Older People

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: multimedia audio-visual program
* Other: experiential learning programmes
* Other: teachers' personal demonstration


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Students aged 20 or above who have taken long-term care/long-term care-related courses. Participate in this Community elders of the research project, aged 50 or above. Exclusion Criteria: No willingness to participate in the research. Exercise taboos or physical health factors, such as severe frailty cases, severe illnesses Emotional instability, injury and inability to walk, pregnancy, etc. Elders or students who cannot communicate in Chinese/Taiwanese.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 20 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Other
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Placebo Comparator: multimedia audio-visual program<br> | Other: multimedia audio-visual program<br>* Participants in the control group will receive teaching method with multimedia audio-visual material.<br>|
| Experimental: multimedia audio-visual and experiential learning programmes<br> | Other: multimedia audio-visual program<br>* Participants in the control group will receive teaching method with multimedia audio-visual material.<br>Other: experiential learning programmes<br>* Participants in the experimental group will receive teaching method with experiential learning.<br>|
| Experimental: multimedia audio-visual and teachers' personal demonstration and experiential learning<br> | Other: multimedia audio-visual program<br>* Participants in the control group will receive teaching method with multimedia audio-visual material.<br>Other: experiential learning programmes<br>* Participants in the experimental group will receive teaching method with experiential learning.<br>Other: teachers' personal demonstration<br>* Participants in the experience group will receive teachers' personal demonstration.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Caring Assessment | 5-Point Likert Scale and higher scores mean a better | 12 weeks | 
| Caring attitude | 5-Point Likert Scale and higher scores mean a better | 12 weeks | 
| Caring Perception Behavior | 5-Point Likert Scale and higher scores mean a better | 12 weeks | 
| Selfishness | 2-point scales and higher scores mean more selfishness | 12 weeks | 
| behavioral intention of caring | 5-Point Likert Scale and higher scores mean a better | 12 weeks | 
| The caring ability inventory | 7-Point Likert Scale and higher scores mean a better | 12 weeks | 
| test for muscle strength training program | outcome for cognition aspect | 12 weeks | 
| idea transformation questionnaire | 5-Point Likert Scale and higher scores mean a better | 12 weeks | 
| service-learning experience of scale for caring | 6-Point Likert Scale and higher scores mean a better | 12 weeks | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| a caring scale for older adults | 5-Point Likert Scale and higher scores mean a better | 12 week |