Barriers and facilitators to online medical and nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from international students from low- and middle-income countries and their teaching staff

Autor: Changhao Wu, Zheng Gong, Mingyu He, Shenjun Liu, Wen Li, Hong Sun, Robyn M. Gillies
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
Medicine (General)
Students
Medical
020205 medical informatics
Public Administration
Nurses
Satisfaction
02 engineering and technology
International medical students
Health administration
0302 clinical medicine
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
030212 general & internal medicine
Education
Nursing
Response rate (survey)
Low- and middle-income countries
Education
Medical
Health services research
Faculty
Test (assessment)
Online learning
International nursing students
Female
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Psychology
Adult
Faculty
Medical
Adolescent
Attitude of Health Personnel
education
Developing country
Assessment
Education
Distance
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
R5-920
Physicians
Humans
Nurse education
Students
Developing Countries
Pandemics
Medical education
Internet
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
Research
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
International health
COVID-19
Attitude
Human resource management
Faculty
Nursing
Students
Nursing
business
Zdroj: Human Resources for Health
Human Resources for Health, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021)
ISSN: 1478-4491
Popis: Background The COVID-19 pandemic posed a huge challenge to the education systems worldwide, forcing many countries to provisionally close educational institutions and deliver courses fully online. The aim of this study was to explore the quality of the online education in China for international medical and nursing students from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as well as the factors that influenced their satisfaction with online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods Questionnaires were developed and administered to 316 international medical and nursing students and 120 teachers at a university in China. The Chi-square test was used to detect the influence of participants’ personal characteristics on their satisfaction with online education. The Kruskal–Wallis rank-sum test was employed to identify the negative and positive factors influencing the online education satisfaction. A binary logistic regression model was performed for multiple-factor analysis to determine the association of the different categories of influential factors—crisis-, learner-, instructor-, and course-related categories, with the online education satisfaction. Results Overall, 230 students (response rate 72.8%) and 95 teachers (response rate 79.2%) completed the survey. It was found that 36.5% of students and 61.1% of teachers were satisfied with the online education. Teachers’ professional title, students’ year of study, continent of origin and location of current residence significantly influenced the online education satisfaction. The most influential barrier for students was the severity of the COVID-19 situation and for teachers it was the sense of distance. The most influential facilitating factor for students was a well-accomplished course assignment and for teachers it was the successful administration of the online courses. Conclusions Several key factors have been identified that affected the attitudes of international health science students from LMICs and their teachers towards online education in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. To improve the online education outcome, medical schools are advised to promote the facilitating factors and cope with the barriers, by providing support for students and teaching faculties to deal with the anxiety caused by the pandemic, caring for the state of mind of in-China students away from home, maintaining the engagement of out-China students studying from afar and enhancing collaborations with overseas institutions to create practice opportunities at students’ local places.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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