2 research outputs found
Nursing students' and faculty members' experiences of online education during COVID-19 across Southeast Asia: a photovoice study
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary disruptions to education systems globally, forcing
a rapid switch from conventional to online education. Although some qualitative studies have been carried out
exploring the online education experiences of nursing students and faculty members during the COVID-19
pandemic, to our knowledge, no study has used the Photovoice approach.
Objectives: To explore the experiences of nursing students and faculty members as related to online education
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design: A descriptive qualitative design using Photovoice was adopted.
Setting: The study took place across five countries and one city in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong).
Participants: Fifty-two nursing students and twenty-eight nursing faculty members who participated in online
education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Each participant submitted one photo substantiated with written reflections. Data were analysed using
thematic analysis. Ethical approval was obtained from institution-specific ethics boards.
Results: Three themes and eleven sub-themes emerged from the data. The three main themes were: 1) Psychological roadblocks to online education; 2) Developing resilience despite adversities; and 3) Online education:
What worked and what did not
Salutogenesis and COVID-19 pandemic impacting nursing education across SEANERN affiliated universities: a multi-national study
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of many. Particularly, nursing students experience
greater stress as their normal curriculum is interrupted and some of them face the risk of being infected as
frontline workers. Nursing faculty members may face similar struggles, in addition to developing teaching materials for online learning. Thus, it is important to examine the faculty members' and students' views on their
ability to adapt during the pandemic to obtain a holistic view of how learning and training has been affected.
Design: The descriptive cross-sectional quantitative design was used.
Settings: Data were collected from Southeast and East Asian Nursing Education and Research Network (SEANERN) affiliated nursing institutions from January 2021 to August 2021.
Participants: A total of 1897 nursing students and 395 faculty members from SEANERN-affiliated nursing institutions in Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam were recruited for this study.
Methods: Quantitative surveys were used to explore the satisfaction levels in education modalities, confidence
levels, psychosocial well-being, sense of coherence and stress levels of nursing students and faculty members
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Results: Participants were mostly satisfied with the new education modalities, although most students felt that
their education was compromised. Both groups showed positive levels of psychosocial well-being, despite scoring
low to medium on the sense of coherence scale and experiencing great stress. The participants' sense of coherence
was positively correlated with their psychosocial well-being and negatively correlated with stress levels.
Conclusions: While the COVID-19 pandemic had negatively impacted the lives of nursing students and faculty
members, most of them had a healthy level of psychosocial well-being. Having a strong sense of coherence was
associated with better psychosocial health and lower stress levels. As such, it may be helpful to develop interventions aimed at improving the sense of coherence of nursing students and staff to help them manage
stressors better