Daly Barbara J, Nock Nora, Margevicious Seunghee, Meropol Neal J
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Flatiron Health, NY, NY.
J Nurs Educ Pract. 2019;9(4). doi: 10.5430/jnep.v9n4p1. Epub 2018 Nov 26.
Learners' attitudes towards a topic or behavior has long been recognized as an important component in the evaluation of formal education as well as in achieving desired behavior change. However, attitudes are frequently neglected and evaluation of outcomes from continuing nursing education often includes only changes in knowledge and learner satisfaction. We describe measurement of attitudes of oncology nurses towards holding discussions with patients about the option of participating in a clinical trial, in comparison to what can be learned from measuring knowledge alone. This article illustrates important insights that can be gained through inclusion of measures of attitude in both designing and evaluating continuing education using data from a larger on-going study.
学习者对某一主题或行为的态度，长期以来一直被视为正规教育评估以及实现期望行为改变的一个重要组成部分。然而，态度常常被忽视，而对继续护理学教育结果的评估通常仅包括知识的变化和学习者的满意度。我们描述了肿瘤护理人员对于与患者讨论参与临床试验选项的态度测量，相较于仅通过测量知识所能了解到的情况。本文通过纳入态度测量指标，利用一项正在进行的更大规模研究的数据，阐述了在继续教育的设计和评估中可以获得的重要见解。
