TY - JOUR ID - 90193 TI - Application of Service Learning Method in the Training of Nursing Students JO - Strides in Development of Medical Education JA - SDME LA - en SN - 2645-3525 AU - Khorrami Rad, Ashraf AU - Akhond Zadeh, Kobra AU - Abedini, Zahra AU - Heydari, Saiedeh AD - M.Sc. in Nursing, Instructor of Nursing & Midwifery Dept., Qum University of Medical Sciences, Iran Y1 - 2011 PY - 2011 VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 134 EP - 140 KW - Service learning KW - Health field KW - Nursing studen DO - N2 -   Background & Objective : The most important aim of each educational approach is to promote learners level of knowledge and attitude Undoubtedly Service Learning educational methods are more efficient than others The aim of the present study was to determine the efficacy of Service Learning Method on knowledge and attitude of nursing students in regard to AIDS   Methods : In a quasi experimental study 34 nursing students in the 2nd semester of 2009 were selected by census sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups Educational program of AIDS was thought to the experimental and control groups by service learning and traditional methods respectively Knowledge and attitude of the two groups as well as a target group (51 employed nurses) were determined before and after the intervention Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics and Chisquare test   Results : Mean post test knowledge and attitude scores of experimental and control group showed significant difference (p UR - https://sdme.kmu.ac.ir/article_90193.html L1 - https://sdme.kmu.ac.ir/article_90193_994965494a859b6c26090ecec13f1f6a.pdf ER -