Investigating Factors Affecting on Quality of Clinical Education and its Related Factors in Nursing and Midwifery students in Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences

Clinical education is one of the most important educational topics in the fields of medical sciences, especially nursing, midwifery and surgical technology, which is effective in both students' clinical performance and their future careers. Due to the importance of the quality of clinical education in this study. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the quality of clinical education and related factors from the perspective of students of the School of Nursing and Midwifery of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences.

This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted with the participation of 250 students of the School of Nursing and Midwifery of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences in 2019 and 2020 by census method. In order to collect information from the demographic questionnaire and the questionnaire to assess the factors affecting the quality of clinical education, it was taken from the study of Ghorbanian and colleagues. After completing the sampling, the data was analyzed using SPSS version 22 software and descriptive and inferential statistics .

Based on the results of the analysis, 158 (63.2%) participants were female. Most of the students were 135 (54%) nursing students and most of them were in the 6th semester (22.8%). From the students' point of view, the educational goals and program with an average and standard deviation of 22.74 ± 3.12 were among the educational strengths. In the field of dealing with students, the mean and standard deviation was 7.544 ± 1.541. Based on the results of the analysis, there was no relationship between age,gender and place of residence the areas under evaluation (p> 0.05), but there was a relationship between students' with the areas of objectives and curriculum, student treatment, learning environment, monitoring and evaluation, and self-efficacy.

The quality of clinical education from the perspective of students in all fields of nursing and midwifery of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences is acceptable. However, in order to improve the weak points in order to improve the quality of clinical education, attention should be paid to the demographic characteristics of students as well as the different aspects of the quality of clinical education.