Comparison of the effects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation training through modified team based learning and traditional method on knowledge and skills of nursing students in the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz, 2012

Health personnel’s lack of knowledge and skills in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is an important factor in the undesirable outcomes of cardiac arrest. Team-Based Learning (TBL) is a new teaching strategy which has attracted the attention of medical education communities. The present study aimed to compare the effects of CPR training through Modified Team-Based Learning (MTBL) and traditional method on the nursing students’ knowledge and skills.
Out of all the nursing students studying in the College of Nursing and Midwifery in 2012-2013, 50 junior students were selected through random cluster sampling. Then, the students were divided into a control and an experimental group. In the experimental group, CPR was trained using MTBL, while it was taught to the control group through the traditional method. The data were collected using knowledge assessment questionnaire and CPR skills assessment checklist. Then, the data were entered into the SPSS statistical software and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
The results of Variance analysis with repeated measurements Showed a significant difference between MTLB and traditional groups’ CPR knowledge and skills (p TBL, as an appropriate method for effective learning, can be used for medical students.