Teaching of Public Health Research and Its Assessment: A Real-World Research Practice

It has been found that issues regarding population health get relatively less consideration by the students with other domains under health sciences. Among nursing students the need for research skill and improvement cannot be discounted. Timely teaching research skills to nursing students will provide opportunities to implement those skills throughout their course period. The aim of this research study was to assess nursing students’ research skills through a teaching session of research methodology. Undergraduate students from different batches from institute of nursing, Dow University of Health Sciences, participated in this study. Students were asked to fill out questionnaire prepared for this study regarding public health research skills, after that a teaching session was conducted for the study participants and then same questionnaire was filled again after the session. Out of 90 students majority of the students (77.2%) were those who have never attended a research seminar and most of the students have never participated in a research paper none have they written scientific paper, percentages of such students were 83.7 and 89.1 respectively. There were only 16.3% students who did not feel that undergraduate students cannot plan and conduct research and write scientific paper. Significant difference (p-value < 0.001) was found between pre and post teaching session correct scores. In this research study, we found significant impact on nursing students’ research skill through a teaching session as improvement in their research skills was apparent.