Interventions to improve patient health education competence among nursing personnel: A scoping review

Abstract

Aim

To determine what intervention strategies have been used in interventions aimed at improving the patient health education competence of nursing personnel.

Background

There is a growing body of research on educational interventions for improving nursing personnel’s patient health education competence, but there are significant differences in the teaching objectives, content and methods of these studies, as well as a lack of standardized educational strategies.

Design

The scoping review was based on the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology.

Methods

In this study, six databases and the gray literature source, the Google search engine, were searched. A search strategy was developed based on the three-step search method recommended by the Joanna Briggs Institute. Two researchers independently performed study selection and data extraction.

Results

22 articles reported on the specifics of educational interventions. The duration of these interventions ranged from a minimum of 1.5 hours to a maximum of 3 months. Most interventions employed face-to-face courses as the teaching model. The studies included a variety of teaching methods, with the most frequently mentioned being lectures, discussions, demonstrations, simulations and role-playing. However, most studies lacked specific teaching objectives and none described the educational content of the implementation process. Additionally, none of the studies developed educational content based on a competence framework for patient health education. Few studies reported on long-term effects.

Conclusion

The diverse intervention strategies demonstrated in these studies could serve as valuable evidence to guide the development of relevant educational programs and facilitate the design of future high-quality educational interventions.