Mengdan Li, Ping Ni, Tingting Zuo, Yunyong Liu, Bo Zhu
Cancer literacy differences of basic knowledge, prevention, early detection, treatment and recovery: a cross-sectional study of urban and rural residents in Northeast China
Frontiers in public health
critical reflection effective improving students communication abilities confidence aim study evaluate effectiveness workbased critical reflection program enhance novice nurses clinical criticalthinking abilities communication competency job performance present study used quasiexperimental design october 2014 august 2015 collected data 44 novice nurses working advanced general hospital city korea nurses experimental group participated critical reflection program six months outcome variables clinical criticalthinking skills communication abilities job performance nonparametric mannwhitney utest wilcoxon rank sum test selected evaluate differences mean ranks assess null hypothesis medians equal across groups results showed clinical criticalthinking skills experimental group improved significantly p 0003 differences mean ranks communication ability two groups significantly statistically different p 0028 job performance improved significantly experimental group control group statistical difference p 0294 therefore suggest critical reflection program considered essential tool improving critical thinking communication abilities among novice nurses need adapt clinical environment quickly possible suggest conducting research critical reflection programs among larger diverse samples