International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing
2025, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part A
Comparison between online and offline mode of teaching regarding palliative care
Supriya Mondal and Bidyani Devi
Abstract: Palliative care is an important aspect in health care. For advanced stages of diseases, it is an important aspect of therapy. Doctors, nurses, health workers must be trained regarding palliative care. Due to the growing demand of palliative care, palliative care training becomes an essential part. The need for life care training is increasing because of the aging population and increasing chronic advanced health issues. Gradually this palliative care will be routine and standard care. In this study, researchers were trying to compare the effectiveness of online and offline modes of education.
Objective: To compare the effectiveness between online and offline mode of training.
Methods: Researcher select quasi experimental research design for this study. Non probability convenient sampling technique was used in this research study. Informed consent was taken from the students. Two settings were selected in this study. For Online training MMI Nursing College, Raipur was selected and for offline training CM Nursing Institute, Bhilai was selected. Structured with multiple choice questionnaires were used as a tool. Reliability was 0.93 by Pearsons formulae.
Results: Pretest mean was same in two methods but in post test online mean 25 and offline mean 21, online median 24 and offline median 20 in post test, mean difference were 10 and 6. It reflects that there is more gain in knowledge in online mode than offline. T test was 9.09 in online mode which was much higher than off line t test value 2.21 which indicates there is much true mean difference through online mode than offline mode.
Conclusion: This study concludes that online teaching is much more effective than offline teaching due to some considerable factors.