Developing Civility Behavior Guideline among Maternity Nursing Students at Class Room and Practical Engagement

Abstract

Civility behavior in classroom can inspire perceptions of warmth and competence, improves interpersonal relationships, productivity, overcomes negative conflict, bullying and violence, Avoids hostile work (and academic) environments, influences whether people will trust, build relationships and support, improves customer service in the workplace, help and prepare maternity nursing students for academic and professional success. Aim: To evaluate the effect of developing civility behavior guideline among maternity nursing students at classroom and practical engagement. Design: A quasi-experimental study design was used. Setting: the study was conducted at Technical Institute for Nursing, Sayed Galal University Hospital, Al-Azhar University. Sample: A purposive sample was used to recruit 60 female maternity nursing students in the third year=28 and fourth year=32. Data collection tools: 1) Interviewing questionnaire and, 2) Attitude rating scale, 3) Student engagement scale. Results: Findings of the present study showed that more than three quarters of the studied students (76.7%) had poor knowledge regarding civility behavior pre intervention compared with two thirds of them (63.3%) had good knowledge post intervention with a highly statistically significant difference (P<0.000). Moreover, more than three quarters of the studied students (76.7%) had negative attitude pre intervention compared with most of them (95%) had positive attitude post intervention with a highly statistically significant difference (P<0.000). Also, the majority of the studied students (83.3%) had negative behavior pre intervention compared with most of them (88.3%) had positive behavior post intervention with a highly statistically significant difference (P<0.000). Finally, There was a positive correlation between total student's knowledge, total attitude and their behavior regarding civility guidelines post intervention (P<0.05). Conclusion: The majority of studied sample have satisfactory level of knowledge, attitude and behavior post intervention. Recommendations: The current study recommended that 1) Community based initiatives should be encouraged to promote awareness and prevention of incivility behavior in academic environment, 2) Replication of the study on a larger sample and in different geographical areas in Egypt for generalization of findings.