TY - JOUR ID - 91541 TI - The Effectiveness of Group Counseling with Emphasis on Communication Skills on Midwifery Students' Sense of Belonging in Clinical Settings JO - Strides in Development of Medical Education JA - SDME LA - en SN - 2645-3525 AU - Saadatbakht, Mahnaz AU - Ahmadi, Atefeh AU - Mehdizadeh Zare Ansari, Ali AU - Azizzade Forouzi, Mansooreh AU - Jahani, Yunes AD - Student Research Committee, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran AD - Nursing Research Center, Razi Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran AD - Neuroscience Research Center, Afzalipour Hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran AD - Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran AD - Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman,Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 6 KW - counseling KW - Belonging KW - communication KW - Clinical KW - Midwifery KW - Students DO - 10.22062/sdme.2020.91541 N2 - Background: It seems that by improvement of communication skills among midwifery students, their sense of belonging in the medical setting increases.Objectives: The current study aimed to investigate the effect of group counseling with emphasis on communication skills on midwifery students’ sense of belonging in clinical settings.Methods: This interventional study with the pretest-posttest control group design was conducted on 78 midwifery students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, in 2016. The participants were selected using the census method. Of the total study population, sixty students with low level of mental health were screened using Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire and randomly included in intervention and a control group. They filled out Belongingness Scale–Clinical Placement Experience (BES–CPE) as the pretest. The intervention consisted of eight group counseling sessions (two 2-hour sessions per week) with emphasis on communication skills that were held in their faculty. The final sample included fifty two students filling out the posttest instruments. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22.Results: There was no significant difference in terms of demographic factors between two groups. There was a significant difference between the groups in terms of total score (p <0.0001) as well as the self-esteem and self-efficacy subscales (p <0.05).Conclusion: Sense of belonging in clinical settings is required for midwifery students so that they can improve their communication skills in such settings. Therefore, it is recommended to include programs in midwifery curricula in order to improve students’ sense of belonging by enhancing their communication skills. UR - https://sdme.kmu.ac.ir/article_91541.html L1 - https://sdme.kmu.ac.ir/article_91541_a373d6780c208fc915052ea55a2af76d.pdf ER -