This study was conducted to develop and test effects of flipped learning on education program for college students with persistent moderate-severe allergic rhinitis.
The study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The total of ...
This study was conducted to develop and test effects of flipped learning on education program for college students with persistent moderate-severe allergic rhinitis.
The study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The total of 38 subjects, 19 in each of control and experimental group, were selected from a sample pool of college students aged between 19 and 29 and diagnosed with persistent moderate-severe allergic rhinitis. Data was collected from June 19th to September 15th in 2017.
The education program for college students with allergic rhinitis with the application of flipped learning developed by this study was operated in the stage of Pre –In-Post class for total 12 weeks under the theme of understanding & management of allergic rhinitis. For 'In class', the TREAT stage suitable for patient education program was developed. In the research procedure, the allergic rhinitis education program applying flipped learning was provided to the experimental group while data was just collected from the control group throughout the same period. For data collection, the knowledge about allergic rhinitis, self-efficacy, self-care behavior, subjective symptoms, and quality of life were measured in different time periods such as before education program after education program, 4weeks later, and 8 weeks later. The collected data was analyzed through independent t-test and repeated measures ANOVA.
The results of this study are as follows.
1) Hypothesis 1: In the results of verifying that “The experimental group participating in the education program with the application of flipped learning for college students with allergic rhinitis would have higher degree of knowledge than the control group”, there were significant differences in interactions between times and groups(F=15.029, p<.001), so that Hypothesis 1 was supported.
2) Hypothesis 2: In the results of verifying that “The experimental group participating in the education program with the application of flipped learning for college students with allergic rhinitis would have higher degree of self-efficacy than the control group”, there were significant differences in interactions between times and groups(F=6.814, p<.001), so that Hypothesis 2 was supported.
3) Hypothesis 3: In the results of verifying that “The experimental group participating in the education program with the application of flipped learning for college students with allergic rhinitis would have higher degree of self-care behavior than the control group”, there were significant differences in interactions between times and groups(F=41.761, p<.001), so that Hypothesis 3 was supported.
4) Hypothesis 4: In the results of verifying that “The experimental group participating in the education program with the application of flipped learning for college students with allergic rhinitis would have lower degree of subjective symptom than the control group”, there were significant differences in interactions between times and groups(F=61.453, p<.001), so that Hypothesis 4 was supported.
5) Hypothesis 5: In the results of verifying that “The experimental group participating in the education program with the application of flipped learning for college students with allergic rhinitis would have higher quality of life than the control group”, there were significant differences in interactions between times and groups(F=52.413, p<.001), so that Hypothesis 5 was supported.
In conclusion, the education program with the application of flipped learning developed by this study was verified as an effective intervention that could decrease the subjective symptoms of allergic rhinitis and also improve the quality of life by improving the knowledge about allergic rhinitis, self-efficacy, and self-care behavior of college students in their 20s with persistent moderate-severe allergic rhinitis. Therefore, the education program for allergic rhinitis developed by this study is actively recommended for nurses or health managers at college to educate subjects in their 20s with allergic rhinitis.