The Effect of Integrated Breast Examination Training on the Learning and Skills of Undergraduate Midwifery Students of Kurdistan University of Medical Science

Background and Aim: One of the first educational needs is to adapt new methods to empower and improve the performance of learners. Teaching clinical skills to students is a challenging task, and professors must prepare students in a more effective way to play a role in the field of health care services. The purpose of the study was to “determine the effect of integrated breast examination training on the learning and skills level of Undergraduate midwifery students of Kurdistan University of Medical Science”. Material and Methods: This research was a Quasi-experimental before and after study in 2022.The community of this research was made up of all second and fourth semester midwifery students. 30 students were included in the study by census method. The data collection tool in this study included a demographic profile form, the researcher’s questionnaire for learning breast examination, and the checklist for observing the clinical skills of breast examination. STATA software version 12 was used to analyze the study data. For descriptive purposes, frequency distribution table and mean and standard deviation were used. For the learning and skill variables before and after the intervention, Wilcoxon’s non-parametric test was used, and the significance level was considered less than 0.05. Results: The median and interquartile ranges of the learning rate before and after the intervention in participants were 8 and 4 to 19 and 7, respectively, which showed a significant statistical difference. Also the median and interquartile range of breast examination skills before and after the intervention in participants were 8.45 and 5.97 to 114.34 and 25, respectively, which showed a statistically significant difference (P= 0.001). Conclusion: This study showed that the use of Integrated Learning in Breast Examination can increase learning and skill in Midwifery students.