Simulated teaching in the life education intervention for promoting nursing students’positive beliefs, well-being and understanding of a meaningful life

Background: A nursing educator had a responsible to equip nursing students with positive beliefs, well-being and understanding of ameaningful life, as well as the need to promote their physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health. The aim of this study was to understand simulated teaching in the life education intervention in relation to the above-mentioned goals.
Methods: This study adopted a pre-experimental design in one experimental group.A purposive sample was used in this study. All 60 participants were 3rd-year nursing students who followed the curriculum of health education. Ultimately, 51 nursing students voluntarily completed the pre-test, post-test, and post-post-test of questionnaires three times after finishing the simulated teaching in the life education intervention. A 56-item questionnaire was used to explorenursing students’perspective of a meaningful life (1-25 items), positive beliefs (1-11 items), and well-being (1-20 items). The content validity index (CVI) of the study questionnaire was 0.95, as established by seven expert scholars. The reliability of the three-part measurement (n=61) for pilot-test were as follows: meaningful life had a Cronbach’s α of 0.96; positive beliefs had a Cronbach’s α of 0.93; and well-being had a Cronbach’s α of 0.95.Frequencies, percentages, pre-test mean and SD, post-test mean and SD, post-post-test mean and SD, paired T-test, and P-valueswere all used for the data analysis.
Results: Regarding then cognition of the meaning of life, nursing students had a mean score on the pre-test of 3.97 (SD 0.65), a post-test mean score of 4.18 (SD 0.62)(P<0.05), and a post-post-test mean score of 4.11 (SD 0.66). Regarding positive beliefs, nursing students had a mean score on the pre-test of 3.93 (SD 0.70), a post-test mean score of 4.17 (SD 0.68) (P<0.01), and a post-post-test mean score of 4.05 (SD 0.68). Regarding well-being, nursing students had a mean score on the pre-test of 4.00 (SD 0.64), a post-test mean score of 4.17 (SD 0.56), and a post-post-test mean score of 4.08 (SD 0.65).
Conclusions: Nursing students showed significant improvement on the immediate effect on meaning of life, positive beliefs, and no well-being; on the other hand, the nursing students showed no significant improvement on the delay effect on the meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being.