Katherine A Nash, Himali Weerahandi, Huihui Yu, Arjun K Venkatesh, Louisa W Holaday, Jeph Herrin, Zhenqiu Lin, Leora I Horwitz, Joseph S Ross, Susannah M Bernheim
Measuring Equity in Readmission as a Distinct Assessment of Hospital Performance
JAMA
nurses around world expected demonstrate competence performing mental status evaluation however gap taught class practiced patients mental illness among nursing students mse performance believed proper pedagogics may enhance competence longitudinal controlled quasiexperimental study design used evaluate effect using standardized patient simulationbased pedagogics embedded lecture enhancing mental status evaluation cognition among nursing students tanzania longitudinal controlled quasiexperimental study design preand posttest design studied 311 nursing students tanga dodoma regions standardized patient simulationbased pedagogy spsp package administered intervention group groups underwent baseline posttest assessments using intervieweradminstered structured questionnaire primary data collection tool benchmarked previous studies effectiveness intervention assessed using descriptive inferential statistics specifically difference difference linear mixed model ttest carried using ibm statistical package social science spss software version 25 participants mean age 21 years 269 6881 students female following training students intervention group demonstrated significant increase mse cognition posttest overall mean score sd 2215 442p 00001 sd 1652 630 control group significant difference exists levels cognition among nursing students exposed mental status evaluation mse materials standardized patient simulationbased pedagogy spsp embeded lectures mse materials delivered spsp along lectures results significantly superior using lectures pedagogy alone