Effects of Teaching Model for Enhancing Critical Thinking in Prenatal Nursing Care of Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

This quasi-experimental research aimed to compare mean scores between nursing students who received a teaching model for enhancing critical thinking in prenatal nursing care of women with gestational diabetes mellitus, and nursing students who received regular teaching. The samples were 52 junior nursing students. They were divided into an experimental group and a control group. Each group had 26 samples. The research instruments included a teaching model for enhancing critical thinking, teaching materials on gestational diabetes mellitus, three case studies, and assessment form on critical thinking. The content validity had been examined by three experts and the reliability was 0.76. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, paired t-test, and independent t-test.
This study found that the majority of control group were 21 years old (42.30%). 96.15% were female. The GPA was between 2.51-3.00 (57.70%). Meanwhile, the majority of experimental group were 21 years old (53.84%) and all were female (100%). The GPA was between 2.51-3.00 (46.15%). Both the control group and the experimental group had increased critical thinking in prenatal nursing care of women with gestational diabetes mellitus when compared with the total 23 scores. The control group had increased the mean scores from 40.43% to 78.56%, whereas the experimental group had increased the mean scores from 39.26% to 91.60%. The comparison of mean scores of critical thinking after and before the experiment found that junior nursing students of the control and experimental groups had significantly increased critical thinking after the experiment at 0.05. However, comparison of mean scores of critical thinking between the control and experimental groups after the experiment found that nursing students of the control and experimental groups had not been different on critical thinking. This teaching model would increase learning skill by using case studies in various situations, which would have the effect of increasing mean scores of critical thinking.