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Factors affecting attitudes of nursing students towards distance education during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A web‐based cross‐sectional survey
Author(s) -
Terzi Banu,
Azizoğlu Fatma,
Özhan Fatma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/ppc.12747
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , cross sectional study , distance education , nursing , nurse education , psychology , web survey , medicine , virology , pedagogy , world wide web , computer science , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Purpose To identify the factors affecting nursing students' attitudes towards distance education. Design and Methods This research was conducted as a cross‐sectional, descriptive, and correlational study with a total of 318 nursing students ( N = 380) a university in the west of Turkey. Findings The total average scores of the students from the attitude towards distance education scale was 101.62 ± 24.83 (min = 43, max = 175). Practice Implications Nursing, which is an applied discipline, can be difficult to maintain entirely in the formof distance learning. Therefore, different teaching methods can be used to develop a positive attitude towards distance education in nursing students.
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