Clinical trial NCT05260580: Application of Empowerment Strategies for Gender Equality Among Nursing Students
Official title: Application of Empowerment Strategies for Gender Equality Among Nursing Students in In-service Education
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Gender Equality
Keywords: Medical system
gender equality
gender training
gender sensitivity
Lead sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-03-02
Enrollment: 44
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: one group (Experiment group)
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Gender mainstreaming is a global development trend, as gender disparity has an impact on the development of the social, economic, political, and medical ecologies, as well as people's lives. Understand that gender education involves systematic and structured planning to break students' gender blindness. And to implement health and gender as essential foundations of human rights. Educators need to use systematic curriculum planning and design to conduct gender impact assessments on current curriculum, plans, or policies in the field of health care, so as to strengthen learners' analysis of health problems and consider gender factors at the same time. It is necessary to guide students to incorporate gender perspectives into their thinking so as to help students adopt diversified problem-solving strategies and actions in the care process.

This study used a quasi-experimental research design. The students of a university nursing department were the research subjects. We had a total of 44 participants through a convenient sampling method (one class per week, two hours each time, for a total of 18 weeks). At the same time, we collected the subject's learning reflections on gender issues and conducted the content analysis. The gender stereotype and role attitude scale were used as instruments, and the data were analyzed by the paired t-test method using the software package SPSS 21.0. The research results showed that through the concept of empowerment, students can be enlightened about their gender concepts, explicit knowledge can be transformed into tacit knowledge, and the empowerment process can prompt individuals to truly understand, apply knowledge, and start from the subject experience of learning, also transforming their learning experience. Individuals can become aware of their behaviors, thereby generating problem-solving abilities and practical actions with the gender perspective.

Detailed description: Gender mainstreaming is an important international trend, and staff in the health care system are also affected by this trend, and jointly advocate for the implementation of gender sensitivity in the medical care field. Therefore, it is understood that the promotion of gender education requires systematic and structural planning to break the gender blindness of students and to implement health and gender as an important basis for human rights.

Educators need to use systematic curriculum planning and design to conduct gender impact assessments on current curriculum, plans, or policies in the field of health care, so as to strengthen learners' analysis of health problems and consider gender factors at the same time. It is necessary to guide students to incorporate gender perspectives into their thinking so as to help students adopt diversified problem-solving strategies and actions in the care process.

This study used a quasi-experimental research design. The students of a university nursing department were the research subjects. We had a total of 44 participants through a convenient sampling method (one class per week, two hours each time, for a total of 18 weeks). At the same time, we collected the subject's learning reflections on gender issues and conducted the content analysis. The gender stereotype and role attitude scale were used as instruments, and the data were analyzed by the paired t-test method using the software package SPSS 21.0. The research results showed that through the concept of empowerment, students can be enlightened about their gender concepts, explicit knowledge can be transformed into tacit knowledge, and the empowerment process can prompt individuals to truly understand, apply knowledge, and start from the subject experience of learning, also transforming their learning experience. Individuals can become aware of their behaviors, thereby generating problem-solving abilities and practical actions with the gender perspective.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Students in a university nursing department (third year students) who have taken two credits of "Gender and Health Care" as an elective in a specific in-service class will be the study object of this project, as determined by a suitable sampling procedure.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students that have selected "Gender and Health Care" but do not wish to participate in this study

Primary outcomes:
measure: The scale of Gender Role Stereotype
timeFrame: Baseline, pre-intervention(T0)
measure: The scale of Gender Role Attitudes Scale
timeFrame: Baseline, pre-intervention(T0)
measure: The scale of Gender Role Stereotype
timeFrame: eighteen weeks after intervention(T1)
measure: The scale of Gender Role Attitudes Scale
timeFrame: eighteen weeks after intervention(T1)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
state: Taipei City
Study officials:
affiliation: 365,Ming-te Road,Peitou District,Taipei City
name: Chia-Jung Hsieh, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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