Effect of a traditional Chinese medicine course for undergraduate nursing students: A pre-/post-test study

Nurse Education Today
Yi Cai, David L Boyd

Abstract

Traditional Chinese medicine is widely used for treating aging-related chronic conditions. Therefore, designing a TCM theoretical course for undergraduate nursing students will be a preparation for further clinical practice in TCM in the future. To identify the effect of a TCM course designed for undergraduate nursing students on understanding four key parts of TCM theories. A quasi-experimental pre- and post-test study. A university in China during the 2016 fall semester. A convenience sample of 47 senior undergraduate nursing students. Each pair of pre- and post-tests were conducted before and after one lecture. Four pairs pre-/post-tests were conducted during lectures of fundamental theories, TCM diagnostic principles, herb properties, and treatment principles. Four questionnaires including ten multiple-choice questions were used for pre-/post-tests. Stata 14.0 was used for descriptive analysis and paired t-tests. Mean scores of post-tests were significantly higher than those of pre-tests (p < 0.001). Among pre-tests, the lowest correctness rates of key contents in the four lectures were the pathological relation of five elements (31.25%), the differentiation of symptoms for a case analysis (16.67%), the compatibility relati...Continue Reading

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