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A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the suspension of face-to-face education and its replacement with distance education. This has caused important changes in midwifery education. OBJECTIVE: To determine midwifery students’ opinions about distance education. DESIGN: This qualitative study emplo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9188295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34628182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.103161 |
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author | Topuz, Şenay Yilmaz Sezer, Neslihan Aker, Menekşe Nazlı Gönenç, İlknur Münevver Öner Cengiz, Hatice Er Korucu, Aslı |
author_facet | Topuz, Şenay Yilmaz Sezer, Neslihan Aker, Menekşe Nazlı Gönenç, İlknur Münevver Öner Cengiz, Hatice Er Korucu, Aslı |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the suspension of face-to-face education and its replacement with distance education. This has caused important changes in midwifery education. OBJECTIVE: To determine midwifery students’ opinions about distance education. DESIGN: This qualitative study employed an exploratory case study design. SETTING: This study was carried out at a national university in Ankara, Turkey between December 2020 and January 2021. PARTICIPANTS: The sample of the study comprised 50 students in the midwifery department. MEASUREMENTS AND FINDINGS: Data were collected using a SWOT analysis interview form developed by the researchers. The research findings were grouped into four themes: Satisfaction with distance education, barriers of distance education, facilitating aspects of distance education, and concerns about professional career. KEY CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Distance education in midwifery education in Turkey was found to have aspects involving obstacles and concerns in addition to many pleasing and facilitating features. Our findings suggest distance education can be used together with face-to-face education provided that its pleasing and facilitating aspects are supported and the obstacles and factors causing concerns are removed. Inclusion of distance methods in midwifery programs requires curricula to be updated and support from instructors and students for the development of the necessary infrastructure. There is a role for employing bodies to faciliate practice-based learning for new graduates to address their concerns with a lack of practical experience because of COVID-19 restrictions on placement. |
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spelling | pubmed-91882952022-06-13 A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study Topuz, Şenay Yilmaz Sezer, Neslihan Aker, Menekşe Nazlı Gönenç, İlknur Münevver Öner Cengiz, Hatice Er Korucu, Aslı Midwifery Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the suspension of face-to-face education and its replacement with distance education. This has caused important changes in midwifery education. OBJECTIVE: To determine midwifery students’ opinions about distance education. DESIGN: This qualitative study employed an exploratory case study design. SETTING: This study was carried out at a national university in Ankara, Turkey between December 2020 and January 2021. PARTICIPANTS: The sample of the study comprised 50 students in the midwifery department. MEASUREMENTS AND FINDINGS: Data were collected using a SWOT analysis interview form developed by the researchers. The research findings were grouped into four themes: Satisfaction with distance education, barriers of distance education, facilitating aspects of distance education, and concerns about professional career. KEY CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Distance education in midwifery education in Turkey was found to have aspects involving obstacles and concerns in addition to many pleasing and facilitating features. Our findings suggest distance education can be used together with face-to-face education provided that its pleasing and facilitating aspects are supported and the obstacles and factors causing concerns are removed. Inclusion of distance methods in midwifery programs requires curricula to be updated and support from instructors and students for the development of the necessary infrastructure. There is a role for employing bodies to faciliate practice-based learning for new graduates to address their concerns with a lack of practical experience because of COVID-19 restrictions on placement. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-12 2021-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9188295/ /pubmed/34628182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.103161 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Topuz, Şenay Yilmaz Sezer, Neslihan Aker, Menekşe Nazlı Gönenç, İlknur Münevver Öner Cengiz, Hatice Er Korucu, Aslı A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study |
title | A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study |
title_full | A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study |
title_short | A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study |
title_sort | swot analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9188295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34628182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2021.103161 |
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