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E-learning for self-management support: introducing blended learning for graduate students – a cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, September 2018
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Title
E-learning for self-management support: introducing blended learning for graduate students – a cohort study
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BMC Medical Education, September 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12909-018-1328-6
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Virginia Munro, Andrea Morello, Candice Oster, Christine Redmond, Anna Vnuk, Sheila Lennon, Sharon Lawn

Abstract

E-learning allows delivery of education in many diverse settings and researchers have demonstrated it can be as effective as learning conducted in traditional face-to-face settings. However, there are particular practices and skills needed in the area of providing patient self-management support (SMS), that may not be achievable online. The aim of this study was to compare three approaches in the training of university students regarding the preparation of a Chronic Condition Self-Management Care Plan: 1) traditional face-to-face delivery of SMS training, 2) an e-learning approach and 3) a blended approach (combining e-learning and face-to-face teaching). Graduate entry physiotherapy students and medical students at Flinders University were recruited. Depending on the cohort, students were either exposed to traditional face-to-face training, e-learning or a blended model. Outcomes were compared between the three groups. We measured adherence to care plan processes in the preparation of an assessment piece using the Flinders Program Chronic Care Self Management tools. A total of 183 care plans were included (102 traditional, 52 blended, 29 e-learning,). All students submitted the Flinders Program Chronic Care Plan for university assessment and these were later assessed for quality by researchers. The submission was also assigned a consumer engagement score and a global competence score as these are integral to successful delivery of SMS and represent the patient perspective. The blended group performed significantly better than the traditional group in quality use of the Flinders Program tools: Problem and Goals (P < 0.0001). They also performed significantly better in the total care plan score (P < 0.0001) and engagement score (P < 0.0001). There was no significant difference between the groups for the Partners in Health tool. In this pilot study, the blended learning model was a more effective method for teaching self-management skills than the traditional group, as assessed in the development of a chronic condition self-management care plan. We anticipate that future research with identical groups of students would yield similar results but in the meantime, academics can have confidence that blended learning is at least as effective as traditional learning methods.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Lecturer 2 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 7%
Professor 2 7%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 11 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Unspecified 1 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 11 41%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 October 2018.
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#6,839,811
of 23,103,903 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,165
of 3,387 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#120,167
of 340,828 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#20
of 59 outputs
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