A survey on the effectiveness of WhatsApp for teaching doctors preparing for a licensing exam

Oyewole, Bankole; Animasahun, Victor; Chapman, Helena J.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231148

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“…Where this could be ascribed to the growing burden and hectic schedules of the healthcare workers, nonetheless, it signifies the need for methodical and structured management by the administration to take initiatives in educating healthcare workers. The effectiveness of imparting information via WhatsApp and other social media applications is consistent with some of the studies such as the survey done by Oyewole et al to determine the efficacy of WhatsApp to teach doctors for an exam, and a study conducted in Saudi Arabia in which social media was used by diabetics to communicate about the disease ( 13 , 14 ).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Preparedness of the Healthcare Personnel Against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak: An Audit Cycle

Zafar

Jamal

Khan

2020

Front. Public Health

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With the increasing spread and mortality of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, it is essential for the healthcare community to be prepared per the international standards. This study is focused on assessing the preparedness of healthcare personnel and the effectiveness of an educational intervention to improve this preparedness in those dealing with the COVID-19 infection. A prospective, multicenter audit cycle was conducted on 400 healthcare professionals (271 junior doctors, 90 nurses, 39 non-clinical hospital workers) sampled through stratified random sampling. A questionnaire that was based on “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC's) checklist for healthcare personnel's preparedness for transport and arrival of patients with confirmed or possible COVID-19” was sent to the participants after which an informative document, framed on the information provided by World Health Organization (WHO), CDC, and local guidelines from the Government of Pakistan's website, was distributed through social media platforms. The questionnaire was repeated after 2 weeks to close the audit loop. Chi-Square test and paired sample t -test were used to test significance. In the pre-intervention portion of the study, it was found out that the doctors and nurses had higher knowledge scores compared to the non-clinical hospital staff ( p ≤ 0.05). A statistically significant improvement was seen after the educational intervention was deployed ( p ≤ 0.05). The study concludes that the non-clinical staff, being a vital part of the healthcare framework, need to be educated and effective approaches for official inclusion of relevant information need to be incorporated into clinical practice to limit the transmission of COVID-19.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Preparedness of the Healthcare Personnel Against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak: An Audit Cycle

Zafar

Jamal

Khan

2020

Front. Public Health

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“…Although social media can offer effective tools in the TB learning process, most of the respondents considered social media to be unhelpful. A previous study concluded that the curriculum must be pre‐defined and well‐structured to ensure the effectiveness of these tools for professional TB learning, 16 whilst the failure to meet these requirements could explain the negative responses in our study.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Distance learning has been shown to have a positive influence on students’ learning outcomes such as learning satisfaction 15 . In this context, social media including WhatsApp and other applications such as Google class, Edmodo and Zoom can be valuable tools in conveying online learning 16 . Furthermore, it has been shown that a combination of the distance TB learning and conventional styles brought optimum student performance and satisfaction 17 .…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluation of technology‐based learning by dental students during the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019

Al-Taweel

Abdulkareem

Gul

et al. 2020

Eur J Dental Education

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Introduction Although technology‐based learning (TB‐learning) has been accepted as an efficient educational tool in the field of dentistry, evaluation of TB‐learning in non‐prepared situations such as pandemics has not been fully investigated. This study aimed to evaluate different aspects of TB‐learning among undergraduate dental students during the pandemic outbreak of COVID‐19. Materials and methods Dental students in selected Iraqi universities (University of Baghdad, University of Sulaimani, and Dijlah University College) were invited to join the study. A questionnaire was created using a Google platform and answered by students. Satisfaction and attitude toward TB‐learning plus total evaluation scores for lecturers were examined. Results A total of 832 out of 1800 dental students participated in the study. The majority of participants have basic (40.7%) and intermediate (47.5%) computer skills and more than half of them lack any experience in TB‐learning. The overall satisfaction and positive attitude toward TB‐learning was less than 50%. Students at final grade, with advanced computer skills and TB‐learning experience showed higher satisfaction (OR: 3.031, 2.876, 3.644, respectively) and a more positive attitude (OR: 3.172, 3.035, 3.477, respectively) toward TB‐learning than those at earlier grades. Total evaluation scores for lecturers were higher among females (11.5± 5.8) than males (9.9± 7.2) as well as among participants at final grade (14.0± 6.2), with advanced computer skills (13.8± 6.1), and TB‐learning experience (16.2± 6.0). Conclusions Dental students demonstrated low‐moderate satisfaction and positive attitude toward TB‐learning and the quality of material presented to them. Integrating TB‐learning into the dental education curriculum is an essential step in enhancing the acceptance of TB‐learning in the future.

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“…In another study, students who were more heavily engaged in blog-based discussion of relevant learning material had higher grades than peers who had contributed less to the discussion [109]. Passing an examination was significantly associated with combining discussion on a WhatsApp group with the web-based question bank, and so were their higher grades [110]. Medical students who used Wikipedia had superior short-term knowledge acquisition compared with those who used a digital textbook, which suggested a potential role for Wikipedia in medical education [111].…”

Section: Professional Medical Educationmentioning

confidence: 95%

Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

Farsi¹

2021

J Med Internet Res

160

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Background As the world continues to advance technologically, social media (SM) is becoming an essential part of billions of people’s lives worldwide and is affecting almost every industry imaginable. As the world is becoming more digitally oriented, the health care industry is increasingly visualizing SM as an important channel for health care promotion, employment, recruiting new patients, marketing for health care providers (HCPs), building a better brand name, etc. HCPs are bound to ethical principles toward their colleagues, patients, and the public in the digital world as much as in the real world. Objective This review aims to shed light on SM use worldwide and to discuss how it has been used as an essential tool in the health care industry from the perspective of HCPs. Methods A literature review was conducted between March and April 2020 using MEDLINE, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science for all English-language medical studies that were published since 2007 and discussed SM use in any form for health care. Studies that were not in English, whose full text was not accessible, or that investigated patients’ perspectives were excluded from this part, as were reviews pertaining to ethical and legal considerations in SM use. Results The initial search yielded 83 studies. More studies were included from article references, and a total of 158 studies were reviewed. SM uses were best categorized as health promotion, career development or practice promotion, recruitment, professional networking or destressing, medical education, telemedicine, scientific research, influencing health behavior, and public health care issues. Conclusions Multidimensional health care, including the pairing of health care with SM and other forms of communication, has been shown to be very successful. Striking the right balance between digital and traditional health care is important.

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A survey on the effectiveness of WhatsApp for teaching doctors preparing for a licensing exam

Cited by 31 publications

References 13 publications

Preparedness of the Healthcare Personnel Against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak: An Audit Cycle

Preparedness of the Healthcare Personnel Against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak: An Audit Cycle

Evaluation of technology‐based learning by dental students during the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019

Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

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