Student nurses' knowledge and skills of children's environmental health: Instrument development and psychometric analysis using item response theory

Álvarez-García, Cristina; Nieto, Carmen Álvarez; Hidalgo, Pedro Luis Pancorbo; Sanz-Martos, Sebastián; Medina, Isabel María López

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2018.07.008

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“…This measures nursing students’ knowledge of children’s environmental health. It demonstrates good fit and a reliability of 0.98 for items and 0.70 for people based on the Rasch Model [28]. Children’s Environmental Health Skills Questionnaire (ChEHS-Q).…”

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Effectiveness of the e-NurSus Children Intervention in the Training of Nursing Students

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The paediatric population is the most vulnerable to exposure to environmental risk factors. Institutions of higher education have to equip nursing students with the attitudes, knowledge, and skills to respond to this using blended learning. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of e-NurSus Children intervention on student nurses’ attitudes, knowledge, and skills. A quasi-experimental study of time series was designed using pre and post educational intervention evaluation in 2018. The participants were nursing students (N = 267) from Spain (n = 110) and the United Kingdom (n = 157). Three instruments were used: the Sustainability Attitudes in Nursing Survey, the Children’s Environmental Health Knowledge Questionnaire, and the Children’s Environmental Health Skills Questionnaire. The attitudes (15.81%), knowledge (39.02%), and skills (29.98%) of nursing students improved following the e-NurSus Children intervention. It is necessary to include topics on children’s environmental health in nurse education as students are aware of this issue but do not have the knowledge or skills required to manage problems or illness caused by the environment. The e-NurSus Children intervention is an effective tool to address this educational gap.

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“…This measures nursing students’ skills pertaining to children’s environmental health. It demonstrates good fit and reliability of 0.87 for items and 0.76 for people, based on Andrich’s rating scale model [28].…”

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Effectiveness of the e-NurSus Children Intervention in the Training of Nursing Students

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“…Over three quarters of the students were aware of the health consequences of climate change. A study by Álvarez-García et al (2018) in Spain assessed students' knowledge and skills related to children's environmental health using the Children's Environmental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (ChEHK-Q) and the Children's Environmental Health Skills Questionnaire (ChEHS-Q), respectively. Concerningly, it identified a substantial number of students whose knowledge and skills were not adequate in this important area.…”

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“…Good-quality scales and/or questionnaires should demonstrate psychometric properties of consistency in both reliability and validity (Polit and Beck, 2008). Only two of the knowledge questionnaires used had been validated in the Arab (Felicilda-Reynaldo et al, 2018) and Spanish (Álvarez-García et al, 2018) contexts. The ChEHK-Q was developed and validated to determine specific knowledge of environmental pollutants and their effects on children's health, and in relation to skills, the ChEHS-Q specifically assesses skills to manage environmental risks in nursing (Álvarez-García et al, 2018); neither of these questionnaires, however, has been validated among English-speaking students in an English context.…”

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Cross-cultural adaptation of children’s environmental health questionnaires for nursing students in England

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Carter

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Objectives: Children are among the most vulnerable population groups with regard to environmental risks. Nursing students must be fully educated on children’s environmental health as they are in a key position to prevent and reduce the effects of environmental hazards. The main objective of this study was to adapt and validate an English language version of two questionnaires about children’s health and the environment, to assess the knowledge and skills of student nurses in England. Design: Observational cross-sectional study. Setting: A university in Southern England. Method: The study involves translating, adapting and validating the Children’s Environmental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (ChEHK-Q) and the Children’s Environmental Health Skills Questionnaire (ChEHS-Q) with nursing students in England ( N = 232). Results: The psychometric characteristics of both questionnaires were strong. Infit and outfit values were close to 1. The reliability values for the items and people were 0.96 and 0.79 for ChEHK-Q and 0.98 and 0.89 for ChEHS-Q, respectively. Only 52 (22.41%) and 77 (33.62%) participants had at least good knowledge and skills, respectively. Higher knowledge and skills were found with respect to the vulnerability of children and identification of environmental risks in the home. Lower levels of knowledge and skills were found with respect to the effects of pesticides and the assessment of neoplastic pollutants. Conclusion: Findings demonstrate deficiencies in nursing competencies related to children’s environmental health. The use of these questionnaires will facilitate improvement in both knowledge and skills related to children’s environmental health among future nurses.

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“…Therefore, based on this theoretical paradigm, several previous pieces of research related to the analysis of human attitudes and behaviours in university students towards the environment, are recognised [13,14]. These pieces of research are about the challenges and constraints that are still barriers to be broken down, not only in Further Education, but also for society as a whole [15,16].…”

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Analysis of Further Education Students’ Attitudes Regarding Environmental Pollution. A Case Study in Granada

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Díaz

Reche

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Pollution is shown as the environmental challenge, which has the greatest impact on global climate change. Faced with this situation, numerous environmental summits agree on the fact that Environmental Education needs to be implemented within the different disciplines and educational institutions. Therefore, Further Education must foster the research and management of environmental education with the aim of developing responsible citizens with sustainable attitudes. Based on this idea, this paper aimed to analyse the attitudes in Further Education students towards different situations and habits linked to pollution, as well as some of its varied typologies (chemical pollution, acoustic pollution and management of solid urban waste and rubbish). To achieve this, a sample of 307 students from different degrees of Preschool and Primary Education was included, using a questionnaire as a measuring instrument. The methodology of the study was both descriptive, through the analysis of its measures, and inferential, with the preparation of a confirmatory conceptual model through the structural equation model (SEM). Results revealed that students are highly concerned about the different situations proposed, and that the predictive model forges strong correlations between the four variables of the study. Hence, the study focused on the idea of trying to enhance environmental awareness in the groups of students from different educational phases, to subsequently foster the implementation of specific actions aimed at preserving and conserving natural resources, and to guide society towards sustainable development.

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Student nurses' knowledge and skills of children's environmental health: Instrument development and psychometric analysis using item response theory

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Effectiveness of the e-NurSus Children Intervention in the Training of Nursing Students

Effectiveness of the e-NurSus Children Intervention in the Training of Nursing Students

Cross-cultural adaptation of children’s environmental health questionnaires for nursing students in England

Analysis of Further Education Students’ Attitudes Regarding Environmental Pollution. A Case Study in Granada

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