A Cross-Sectional Study of Mobile Phone use by Teachers and their Dress Attir in Class Room of Nursing Student’s in Medical Universites of Sindh-Pakistan.

Abstract

Background: The necessiaty of modern teaching methods and educational policies are considered importamt in this peroid among undergraduate nursing students and educational centers in developing and developed countries who are responsible for transferring of knowledge,skills,and attitude to nursing students in order to achieve objectives of nursing curriculum for effective patient centered care. The research was conducted for assessing of the use of mobile phone, dress code and sense of humor of teachers of nursing students about effective teaching.

Objective:Present study was designed to assess the teacher's dress code,use of mobile and sense of humor during class of nursing students of diploma and ascertain reasons for target variables.

Design of study: Cross-sectional study.

Place & Duration: The study was conducted in Four Nursing schools of province of Sindh, two were private and two public sector from October 2017 to March 2018.

Materials and Methods: For this study 100 students were enrolled through non-probability sampling and further divided into four groups,25 students were taken from each cluster in which 11 participants were unable to join study . Self- administered Questionaire were distributed among targets students they were 37 male and 52 female (total 89) participated in the study;Each participant was individually explained purpose of the study and written consent was taken before giving proforma for study.

Result: There is significant change was seen in use of mobile phone by teacher during teaching class about 74% of students were not support about use of mobile phone in class

.Second1y,69% students were saying that teachers should wear formal dress,Thrid1y 62% strongly agreed with that teacher should use sense of humour in class.

Conclusion: Prohibition of use of mobile phone by teacher in class room is better for effective teaching and learning with formal dress and sense of humor used by teacher related to topic or in class room is benefical for students.