To assess the effectiveness of two preferred teaching methods Case Study and Concept Mapping, on the competency level of UG Nursing Students regarding Children's Respiratory Health Assessment with special reference to Uttarakhand, India

Abstract

A quasi-experimental pre- and post test design was used to assess the effectiveness of two preferred teaching methods Case Study and Concept Mapping, on the competency level of UG Nursing Students regarding Children's Respiratory Health Assessment with special reference to Uttarakhand, India, .In this study independent variables were teaching methods (case study & concept mapping), , and dependent variable were competency level of UG Nursing Students, in term of knowledge, Critical thinking, skill and satisfaction score. Total enumeration sampling technique was used for data collection, data was analyzed for 105 nursing students of selected nursing institutions of uttarakhand. (N=105). The purpose of the study was to identifying the best method for teaching Children's Respiratory Health Assessment to UG nursing students.The Mean±sd of pre test scores among case study group was found to be 18.73± 3.81, 5.26±1.58 and

8.25±3.88 in Knowledge, Critical thinking and Skills respectively whereas Mean±sd among concept mapping group was

18.69±3.72 (Knowledge), 4.75±1.73 (Critical thinking) and 9.34±4.38 (Skills). The Mean±sd of post test scores among case study group for Knowledge, Critical thinking and Skills was found to be 23.16±7.67, 5.94±2.61 and 20.08±5.37 respectively whereas in case of concept mapping group, Mean±sd was found to be 25.19±6.64, 5.71±1.61 and 20.60±5.66 respectively. It can be inferred that the knowledge of nursing students significantly increased after the intervention of two teaching methods. The difference in the mean was found to be statistically highly significant in both the groups. Therefore, it can be concluded that the level of knowledge has increased among subjects of case study and concept mapping, level of critical thinking has increased among subjects of concept mapping. In term of skill level it can be concluded that skill level is increased by two teaching methods. Satisfaction of nursing students regarding two teaching methods case study and concept mapping was favourable towards concept mapping method. Findings of the study were concluded that some learning was found to be better through case study method and some through concept mapping method.