Training nursing care for children with type 1 diabetes using simulation integrated with problem based learning

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Background Although type 1 diabetes is a rare disease in Asian children, nursing students should be trained considering its devastating complications. Summary of work A two-group nonequivalent quasi-experimental study was taken to evaluate the effectiveness of a simulation integrated with problem based learning (SIM-PBL) module of children with diabetes on self-efficacy (SE), knowledge and clinical performance of undergraduate nursing students. Eight students of the intervention group received a 3 -hour SIM-PBL training and seven students in the control group received regular clinical practicum of children’ s health nursing. Summary of results After the SIM-PBL and the regular practicum, the improvements of the intervention group were higher in SE (30.75 ±32.226 vs 1.00±15.695; t=2.216, p=.045), but lower in knowledge (.00±0.756 vs 1.43±3.101; t=- 1.267, p=.227) than the control group. Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was also applied to evaluate clinical performance for both groups and the mean scores of OSCE were higher in the intervention group (23.75±2.866 vs 20.29±2.289; t=2.559, p=.024). Conclusions The SIM-PBL module of type 1 diabetes improved clinical performance, SE and knowledge of undergraduate nursing students. Take-home message The SIM-PBL modules could be used in particularly for clinical conditions students are rarely exposed. This study was supported by Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (2011 -0009627)