The Influence of Case-Based Learning using video In Emergency care of infant and toddlers

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of case-based learning about infants and toddlers on healthcare department students, using a video in an emergency care environment. A total of 57 students from a healthcare department of D university in J city were enrolled. They were divided into two groups: The experimental group (n=29) and the control group (n=28). This study is pre-post designed with a non-equivalent control group. The experimental group received a 1-week education for a duration of 3 weeks (3 sessions in total) with 180 minutes per session. The control group received a traditional curriculum of lecture. Before and after the education, we measured the knowledge and skill confidence of emergency care toward infants and toddlers, the academic self-efficacy, and problem solving ability. Data collection and intervention were carried out from November to December of 2014. Data were analyzed with x2-test, paired t-test, unpaired t-test with SPSS version 20.0 Program. The experimental group showed a significantly higher improvement of skill confidence of emergency care toward infants and toddlers (P<001), as well as preferred task difficulty among sub-items of academic self-efficacy (p=.029), approach avoidance style (P=.001), and problem solving confidence (p=.040) among sub-items of problem solving ability on preference compared with the control group . In this study, a case-based learning was verified to be an effective teaching method to enhance professional competency of healthcare department students. The findings from this study suggest that a case-based learning using various educational contents should be developed, expanded, and carried out to promote better learning.

Effect of Case-Based Small-Group Learning on Care Workers’ Emergency Coping Abilities

“…The analysis of pretest-posttest differences for self-efficacy in coping with emergencies between the two groups revealed significantly higher scores in the EG. This finding is in line with the results of previous studies that have applied case-based small-group learning [45,47,48]. In South Korea, care workers are most often the first emergency responders for LTCS recipients, which denotes that self-efficacy in coping with emergencies is a necessary skill for these professionals.…”

“…These results align with those of Prickett et al's study, which conducted an emergency tracheostomy education intervention for care workers; at posttest, care workers' confidence in performance showed an increase [44]. Other studies that applied CBL have also observed an increase in the levels of practice performance [39,45,46], and the results support these earlier findings.…”

“…According to Dykes et al, care providers with high self-efficacy perform their work zealously in order to prevent health problems among older adults, and higher levels of self-confidence result in advanced levels of relevant knowledge and skills [49]. Since CBL has been evaluated as a useful teaching strategy to enhance care workers' self-efficacy in coping with emergencies [45,50]. The active use of the emergency coping education program proposed in this paper for care workers in South Korea is recommended.…”