Investigating the Effect of Student-centered Teaching on Communication Skills with Diabetic Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Nursing Students

Background: Communication skills with diabetic patients who have diabetic foot ulcers are considered as one of the quality standards of nursing care. Diabetes is a common chronic metabolic disease characterized by long-term hyperglycemia leading to long-term health consequences. Impaired diabetic wound healing is estimated to affect approximately ۲۵% of all patients with diabetes, often resulting in lower limb amputation and high economic and psychosocial costs. Therefore, communication skills with diabetic patients who have diabetic foot ulcers are considered as one of the quality standards of nursing care. As a result of this study, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of student-centered education on communication skills with diabetic patients with diabetic foot ulcers in nursing students. became. Methods: This research is a semi-experimental study, the research community consisted of ۴۲ third-year nursing students of Jahrom Nursing and Paramedical Faculty in ۲۰۱۹; who were selected by the census method and randomly assigned to the student-centered and lecture teaching groups; Communication skills training was held during ۳ two-hour sessions during three weeks for both groups. Data were collected using the communication skills checklist before and one month after the intervention and analyzed using independent t, paired t, Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon and chi-square tests and in spss version ۲۱ software. Results: The mean scores of patient communication skills in the student-centered and lecture-based educational groups were not statistically significant before the intervention (P > ۰.۰۵). However, after the intervention, the mean scores of patient communication skills in the students of the student-centered education group (۶۷.۳۸ ± ۸.۷۱) were higher compared to students of the lecture-based education group (۴۷.۰۰ ± ۱۲.۸۲) and this difference was statistically significant (p

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Student-centered ، education ، patient communication skills ، nursing students ، diabetic patients ، diabetic foot ulcer