Assessing The Quality of Virtual Education from The Perspective of Students of Tabas School of Nursing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 1399-1400

Covid-19 is a respiratory disease that was first identified in Wuhan, China. With the spread of the virus, the education system faced a completely new and huge crisis. Most of the schools from elementary to university were closed. The purpose of the study is to investigate the quality of virtual education from the perspective of Tabas Nursing Faculty students during the COVID-19 pandemic in 1399-1400.

This research is a cross-sectional descriptive study and the statistical population was 180 students of Tabas College of Nursing. The data measurement tool is a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of two parts: the demographic profile form and the second part of the education quality evaluation questionnaire, including 5 subscales (technology and infrastructure, access and ease, education, communication and satisfaction) and 31 indicators, where a 6-point Likert scale including completely disagree with a score of 1 and completely agree with a score of 6 was considered. For the validity of the study tool, CVR and CVI were used, then the reliability of the tool was calculated using Cronbach's alpha. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 22 software. A significance level of less than 0.05 was considered.

The total score of education quality was 108.53 ± 30.56 with a range of 31-186. The average quality of virtual training based on the Likert scale was 3.60 with a standard deviation of 1.01, which showed that the quality of virtual training was almost equal to the mean of the tool (3.5). In terms of the average score of the total quality of education, it was higher than the mean of the tool.

The quality of virtual education in the associate degree in emergency medicine compared to other bachelor's degrees in nursing and operating room has been reported at a favorable level. This method effectively increased the knowledge and attitude of students in different fields.