Dastnaei Peimaneh Hosseini, Moallemi Zahra Saied, Najimi Arash
Dental Research Center, Department of Oral Public Health, Dental School, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Department of Medical Education, Medical Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2020 Mar 31;9:60. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_471_19. eCollection 2020.
Due to changes in scientific findings and assigned tasks, continuing education and other enabling programs are increasingly critical for primary healthcare providers to keep them up-to-date in delivering oral health services. Planning these educational courses based on actual PHCPs' needs is fundamental to provide effective ones. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the experiences and needs of PHCPs regarding the quality of the oral health training provided in continuing education and other enabling courses.
A qualitative study with content analysis approach was conducted in Najaf-Abad, Isfahan, Iran, in 2017. Data were gathered through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 19 primary healthcare providers. The sampling was started with purposeful method and continued through snowball method. Qualitative data were coded and analyzed using MAXQDA (VER 12).
Factors affecting the quality of oral health training were categorized into three themes and nine subthemes, including instructor's related factors (knowledge, skills, and relevant experiences), educational content (content relevance, content innovation, and content update), and teaching methods and educational tools (fitting educational contents, covering learners' needs, and considering available possibilities).
Instructors with inadequate level of knowledge, skills, and relevant experiences as well as inappropriate selection of educational content, teaching methods, and educational tools, were recognized as affecting factors on the quality of oral health training and effectiveness of continuous education and enabling programs.
由于科学发现和分配任务的变化，继续教育及其他赋能项目对于初级医疗保健提供者在提供口腔健康服务时保持最新知识变得越来越关键。根据初级医疗保健提供者的实际需求来规划这些教育课程是提供有效课程的基础。本研究的目的是阐明初级医疗保健提供者在继续教育及其他赋能课程中接受的口腔健康培训质量方面的经验和需求。
2017年在伊朗伊斯法罕的纳贾法巴德进行了一项采用内容分析法的定性研究。通过对19名初级医疗保健提供者进行深入的半结构化访谈收集数据。抽样开始采用目的抽样法，之后通过滚雪球法继续进行。定性数据使用MAXQDA（VER 12）进行编码和分析。
影响口腔健康培训质量的因素分为三个主题和九个子主题，包括与教师相关的因素（知识、技能和相关经验）、教育内容（内容相关性、内容创新性和内容更新）以及教学方法和教育工具（适配教育内容、满足学习者需求和考虑现有可能性）。
知识、技能和相关经验水平不足的教师以及教育内容、教学方法和教育工具选择不当，被认为是影响口腔健康培训质量以及继续教育和赋能项目效果的因素。
