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Abstract
Critical thinking is a composition of attitudes, knowledge, and skills that include “defining a problem, choosing information for the solution, recognizing stated and unstated assumptions, formulating and selecting relevant and promising, hypotheses, drawing conclusions, and judging the validity of the inferences (Tajvidi et al,. 2014):
A psychiatric mental health nurse’s student integrates critical thinking skills for clinical decision making throughout the interpersonal relationship. Critical thinking and clinical
decision making are crucial elements to ensure that the patient’s needs are assessed, relevant problems are identified, and
therapeutic nursing interventions are planned, implemented, and evaluated. The psychiatric mental health nursing student uses critical thinking skills to find the answer to questions about what to do or say to meet the patient’s needs (Papathanasiou et al,. 2014).
Aim of study:
This study aimed to assess critical thinking skills among psychiatric mental health nursing students.
Research question:
What are the critical thinking skills among psychiatric mental health nursing students?
Research design:
A Descriptive Design
Research setting:
Study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing- which affiliated to Ain Shams University in psychiatric and mental health nursing department.
Research Subject:
Study sample:
The sample included all nursing student enrolled in psychiatric and mental health nursing department at the academic year 2017-2018. The total number was 90 nurse students by convenient sample.
Tool of data collection
The tools will be used for data collection are:
Part I: socio-demographic characteristics sheet
Was constructed by the researcher concerned with age, sex and grade, type of secondary education, place of residence, marital status and previous training in critical thinking
Part II : California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory questionnaire (CCTDI)
Developed by Facione and Facione (2006). The CCTDI measures the ”willing” dimension in the expression ”willing and able” to think critically. It consists of 75 items grouped into seven dispositional characteristics [Truth seeking (12 items), analyticity (11 items), systematicity (11 items), self-confidence (9items), inquisitiveness (10 items) open mindedness (12 items) and cognitive maturity (10 items)]. And the tool was finalized accordingly. The fieldwork of data collection started at the beginning of November 2017 to the end of March 2018.
Results:
Part I: Socio-demographic characteristics of participants:
Regarding age of the students, this study showed that three quarter of nursing student’s age represented ≥ 21. About more than half of nursing students were females, while males were nearly to half and more than three quarter of nursing students under study were single.
Regarding to pervious attending training programs about critical thinking, this study revealed that more than three quarter of the study students reported having no pervious attending training programs about critical thinking
Part II : Critical thinking dispositions among psychiatric mental health nursing students.
Concerning truth seeking, the mean scores of truth seeking were the highest among psychiatric nursing students. Also have a positive inclination towards truth seeking
As regard analyticity the mean score of analyticity are moderate among psychiatric nursing students
Concerning Systematicity present study the psychiatric nursing students had moderate mean score toward systematicity disposition
As regard to self-confidence the mean scores of self-confidence are low and more half of students were negative disposition toward critical thinking
As regard to inquisitiveness, the study denoted that the psychiatric nursing students had a positive inclination towards the inquisitiveness. Also, they had high mean score toward this disposition.
Concerning open-mindedness the mean scores of this dispositional characteristic were the highest among nursing students
Concerning to cognitive maturity ,The current study revealed that the students got moderate mean score towards the cognitive maturity, while more than two third of students had positive inclination toward cognitive maturity
Results of the current study revealed that slightly more than one third of psychiatric nursing students showed positive disposition towards critical thinking.
Part III. 1) Relations between psychiatric mental health students of critical thinking skills and their demographic characteristics:
The present study demonstrates that there are statistical significant relation between nursing students’ skills of critical thinking and their pre-university qualification. Which the technical institute students enrolled in faculty of nursing is limited in number according to policy of the coordinating admission office, so the total grade the student acquire in the secondary education. Also the current study show that there are statistical significant differences of critical thinking dispositions between sexes, male students showed more critical thinking dispositions.
Part III.2) Relation between psychiatric mental health nursing students of total critical thinking and socio demographic characteristic
The present study demonstrates that there is statistical significant relation between the sexes, that the majority of female had negative relation about critical thinking also and previous attending program about critical thinking among psychiatric mental health nursing students under study and their total critical thinking
Conclusion:
The finding of present study reached to the following conclusion
• The mean age of the studied nursing students was (21.9±1.34).
• The majority of psychiatric mental health’s nursing students have the highest mean percentage about skills of critical thinking in “truth seeking followed by open mindedness and inquisitiveness meanwhile, the lowest mean percentage of dispositional level characteristics of “self-confidence” among psychiatric mental health nursing students. The most of psychiatric mental health nursing students have negative disposition toward critical thinking.
Recommendation:
Based on study findings these recommendations are suggested:
1-Nursing educational program for enhancing critical thinking skills and how to apply, the students must play an active role in designing this program.
2-Short courses workshops are recommended to develop critical skills
3-Revising the curriculum and preparing nurse educators for implementation of innovative and to meet the opportunities of critical thinking practices
4- Designed active teaching strategies are suggested and how to use these strategies in effective ways for developing critical thinking dispositions of nursing students.