The influence of learning styles preference of undergraduate nursing students on educational outcomes in substance use education.
Nurse Educ Pract
; 8(5): 306-14, 2008 Sep.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18373952
This paper reports a study identifying the learning styles preference of undergraduate nursing students and examining its influence on educational outcomes. There are limited recent studies in the UK on the learning styles preference of undergraduate and its influence on educational outcomes. A purposive sample of 110 undergraduate nursing students completed a demographic questionnaire and the Honey and Mumford's learning styles inventory. A pre-post-test design was used to evaluate the educational outcomes. Reflector learning styles preference was the dominant learning styles among the majority of undergraduate nursing students. An interesting phenomenon about the distribution of the learning styles preference is the additional "dual" learning style category. The hypothesis that learning styles preference will determine knowledge acquisition, changes in attitude and intervention confidence skills was rejected. However, as this is a multi-layered hypothesis the findings showed that only the dual learning styles preference group was found to have a significant influence in intervention confidence skills. Further research is warranted to replicate this study using the same methodology but with several different population samples specialising in different branch of nursing. As there are limited literature on the dual learning styles preferences, this dual preference phenomenon needs further investigation to establish its acceptability in nursing education.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Comportamento do Consumidor
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Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias
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Bacharelado em Enfermagem
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Aprendizagem
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Nurse Educ Pract
Assunto da revista:
EDUCACAO
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ENFERMAGEM
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Reino Unido