Assessment of Factors Affecting Clinical Practice Competency of Undergraduate Health Science Students In Hawassa University, South, Ethiopia
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Clinical practice experiences are critically important to achieve the maximum
level of clinical competence after receiving adequate theoretical and practical instructions.
However graduates have problems in doing some easy duties .Most new bachelor graduates have
adequate theoretical knowledge but lack competence in the clinical environment.
The objective of this study was to assess factors affecting clinical practice competence of
undergraduate health science student in Hawassa University, medical and health Science
College.
Methods: Institutional based Cross-sectional study was carried among 345 Bsc nursing,
midwifery and health officer student and FGDs were carried among four groups. Simple random
sampling was applied to select study subject. Descriptive analysis was employed to describe the
percentages and number distributions of the respondents for socio-demographic characteristics.
Bivariate analysis was used to see the association of independent with the dependent variable.
Crude and adjusted odds ratios together with the corresponding 95% confidence intervals
computed. A P-value ≤ 0.05 considered statistically significant in this study. Data was collected
by using a self-administered questionnaire for quantitative and unstructured questioner for
focused group discussions. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were triangulated and Data
was collected from April, 2015 to July, 2015.
RESULT: In this survey the prevalence of clinical practice competency was found to be25.2%.
In this study, student with clinical instructor support had more ability to clinical practice
competency by 2 times (AOR=2.064, 95%CI 1.042, 3.694) than students who hadn’t got clinical
instructor support during clinical practice and students with clinical practice assessment checklist
more likely ability to clinical practice competency by 4 times (AOR=4.058, 95% CI 1.238,
12.65) than students who hadn’t got clinical assessment checklist during clinical practice.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Clinical practice competency was 25.2%
among students who have clinical instructor support, conduciveness of clinical placement;
clinical assessment checklist as well integrated learning methods.
So improving supervision of clinical instructor and designing appropriate clinical practice
protocol has important to enhance clinical practice competency of student in Hawassa medical
and health Science College
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Clinical practice, Undergraduate Health Science Students