Comparative Study about Teaching Method, Self-directed Learning, Learning Environment, Benefit and Expectation of the Students from Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing Subject Between Saint louis College, Thailand and STIKES Bali, Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract

          The purposes of this descriptive research were 1) to study the teaching method, the students’ self-directed learning, the learning environment, the benefit  and expectation of the Nursing students of the Faculty of Nursing Science of Saint Louise College, Thailand and STIKES Bali, Indonesia 2) to compare the teaching method, the students’ self-directed learning , the learning environment, the benefit and expectation between the Nursing students of Saint Louise College, Thailand and STIKES Bali, Indonesia. The samples were the undergraduate Nursing students enrolling the course named “Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing” in the Academic Year 2014, including 114 students from Saint Louise College and 113 students from STIKES Bali. The volunteer subjects were given information on the research and the protection of the subject’s right. The instruments for data collection include 1) the demographic data questionnaires 2) the teaching method 3) the students’ self-directed learning and the learning environment questionnaires being approved by three experts with the validity of 0.80 4) the open-ended questionnaires about a result of learning and expectation to subject. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, T-test independent correlation, and content analysis.         The research findings revealed that 1) The teaching methods, the most lectures used power point, sheets in class, practices in a real situation, field trips, role play and, case study.  The lectures of STIKES Bali used seminars but the lecturers of Saint Louis College didn’t use this method 2) the students’ self- directed learning occurred occasionally 3) The classrooms had enough space and were equipped with electronic equipment 4) The same students’ opinion said that the benefit which studied in mental health and psychiatric nursing was they got knowledge and experience and useful for working, they occurred understood themselves and the others. The difference students’ opinion was the caring in depth the spiritual 5) The same students’ expectation to study in the mental health and psychiatric nursing subject was the developing knowledge and experience and they can use for work. The students wanted to learn from practicing in real situations, field study and virtual media. The students of STIKES Bali expect to exchange knowledge  and culture with Thai students and find a new method for caring patients but the students of Saint Louise college expect to have  the mental health and psychiatric nursing vocabulary book and the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation guidelines book. The findings of this research could be applied by the course coordinators as well as the management team in designing self-directed learning and teaching program for nursing students, as well as studying the students’ self-directed learning readiness in the other aspects in the future.