Educational training area

Supervisors 

Rosaria Alvaro

Vice-Coordinator
rosaria.alvaro@uniroma2.it

Ercole Vellone

Coordinator
ercole.vellone@uniroma2.it

Contact persons

Rocco Mazzotta

Assistant Professor
rocco.mazzotta@uniroma2.it

Educational-Training Area: the contribution of the research group

The high drop-out rate among students of the COL in Nursing has been a reason to study the problematic aspects that negatively affect the student’s academic progress.

The research group in the area of education and training is responsible for:

  • study the factors that determine stress and burnout in the student, identifying possible preventive and remedial strategies;
  • Identify the factors that facilitate students’ academic path;
  • Identify and test “innovations” to reduce the drop-out rate;
  • Plan, test and implement strategies to implement quality learning in traineeships;
  • Experiment with post-basic study courses (or pathways) focused on emerging health care problems in the population.

The main results of the research team

  • 4% of the students changed course, 7.3% gave up the path, 0.3% dropped. Students who achieve academic success are on average younger than other students (24.4 years vs 26.6 years), are predominantly of classical and/or scientific maturity and have no work and family commitments (Bulfone et al., 2011);
  • the student’s expectations of work (Work Expectation) worsen in the transition between the first and third year (Bulfone et al., 2019);
  • the student’s choice to work as a freelancer (self-employment) is undertaken predominantly by those who have better academic results (Bulfone et al, 2019);
  • some student lifestyles improve over the three years: they are increasing in students who perform physical activities (27.1% vs 32.5%), who have correct eating habits (23.4% vs 35.8%) and decrease in regular smokers (24.3% vs 20.3%)
  • alcohol (2.1% vs 9.6%) and drug abuse behaviour increase (0.8% vs3.1%);

Validation of scales measuring:

  • the suffering of the student connected to the difficulty of acting according to his own ethical-moral values (Moral Distress);
  • ethically incorrect behaviour in the academic environment (Cheating) by the student and the teacher (Macale et al., 2017);
  • academic motivation (Bulfone et al., 2019);
  • the student’s perception of his or her ability to complete an academic journey (Self-Effi acy) (Bulfone et al., 2019; 2016);
  • stress-burnout related to both classroom and internship experience;
  • in collaboration with the University of Rome La Sapienza has been activated a first level interuniversity Master’s degree in “Primary care and public health. Nurses of family and community” according to the document of the Health Observatoroprofessions of 17.12.18 and the MIUR Note of 1/04/2019

Future developments

  • to broaden knowledge about the quality of students’ academic life and innovative teaching strategies that help students achieve academic success and reduce dropouts and out-of-school drop-outs.
  • investigate differences and similarities in the academic life of students from other health area courses.
  • to analyse how some elements that characterize the student’s path in the academic life can influence the ability of the new graduate to enter the world of work (employability).
  • compared to the training area on primary care will be deepened the results on population assisted by entry into the labor market of the Nurse of Family and Community, the most appropriate organizational models and the results on regional health systems (reduction of inappropriate admissions, dehospitalisation, increased home care and assistance, social and health integration, management of the hospital-territory transition).

Tools developed/validated

  • Moral Distress Scale for Nursing Student (ESMEE) by Bordignon et al. 2018 > assesses moral distress;
  • Motivation Nursing Student Scale (MNSS) > evaluates academic motivation
  • Academic Nurse Self-Efficacy scales (ANSEs) > evaluates academic self-efficacy
  • Oldenburg Burnout inventory modifi cata (OLBIm) by Demerouit & Nachreiner (1998) > evaluates burnout in training.

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