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Liu HY, Hsu DY, Han HM, Wang IT, Chen NH, Han CY, Wu SM, Chen HF, Huang DH. Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Teaching on Creativity: A Quasi-Experimental Study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19105875. [PMID: 35627413 PMCID: PMC9140936 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19105875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Abstract
Little is known about the effectiveness of Interdisciplinary teaching (IDT) in higher education, particularly for healthcare education in Taiwan. It is vital to determine if IDT could enhance divergent creative thinking and team creativity among nursing students. A quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design. Students enrolled in a capstone nursing course for the development of healthcare-related products were divided into two groups. The intervention group (n = 61) was taught creative thinking skills with IDT by faculty. The control group (n = 84) was taught by nursing faculty with traditional teaching. This study found that students who received the IDT intervention scored significantly higher on measures of creative thinking and team creativity compared with students in the control group. These findings suggest integrating IDT from nursing and design faculty into the teaching curriculum to foster students’ creative thinking abilities when formulating interdisciplinary student teams to develop innovative, creative healthcare products.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hsing-Yuan Liu
- Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, No. 261, Wunhua 1st Rd., Gueishan Township, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan; (I.-T.W.); (N.-H.C.); (C.-Y.H.); (S.-M.W.); (H.-F.C.)
- Research Fellow (Joint Appointment), Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, No. 5, Fuxing St., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333423, Taiwan
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Industrial Design, Ming Chi University of Tchnology, 84 Gungjuan Rd., Taishan Dist., New Taipei City 243303, Taiwan;
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- Department of Nursing, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, No. 5, Fuxing St., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333423, Taiwan;
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- Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, No. 261, Wunhua 1st Rd., Gueishan Township, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan; (I.-T.W.); (N.-H.C.); (C.-Y.H.); (S.-M.W.); (H.-F.C.)
- Department of Finance, National United University, No. 1, Lienda, Miaoli 360301, Taiwan
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- Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, No. 261, Wunhua 1st Rd., Gueishan Township, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan; (I.-T.W.); (N.-H.C.); (C.-Y.H.); (S.-M.W.); (H.-F.C.)
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- Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, No. 261, Wunhua 1st Rd., Gueishan Township, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan; (I.-T.W.); (N.-H.C.); (C.-Y.H.); (S.-M.W.); (H.-F.C.)
- Research Fellow (Joint Appointment), Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, No. 5, Fuxing St., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333423, Taiwan
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- Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, No. 261, Wunhua 1st Rd., Gueishan Township, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan; (I.-T.W.); (N.-H.C.); (C.-Y.H.); (S.-M.W.); (H.-F.C.)
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- Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, No. 261, Wunhua 1st Rd., Gueishan Township, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan; (I.-T.W.); (N.-H.C.); (C.-Y.H.); (S.-M.W.); (H.-F.C.)
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- Institute of Creative Design and Management, National Taipei University of Business, No. 100, Sec. 1, Fulong Rd., Pingzhen Dist., Taoyuan City 324022, Taiwan;
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Liu HY. Promoting creativity of nursing students in different teaching and learning settings: A quasi-experimental study. NURSE EDUCATION TODAY 2022; 108:105216. [PMID: 34798475 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.105216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Revised: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Interdisciplinary teaching provides students with multiple perspectives through instruction from faculty and students in other academic areas. Providing interdisciplinary teaching to students in nursing and interdisciplinary programs could help foster collaborations between students in nursing and students in fields such as design or engineering, which could expand students' understanding of the skills required to develop a working prototype. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether there is an effect of interdisciplinary teaching on nursing students' creative thinking abilities. DESIGN A quasi-experimental study of two experimental and one control group with a pre-test/post-test design. SETTING The study was conducted between September 2018 and January 2020 in classrooms of a university of science and technology in Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS Nursing students (N = 191) enrolled in capstone courses participated in this study. Two groups of students were assigned to the intervention: Group 1, comprised of typical students (n = 80) or Group 2, comprised of students with teaching assistantships (n = 30). The control group (n = 81) was typical students. The intervention groups received instruction from interdisciplinary faculty in nursing and design and creativity training. The control group was taught by nursing faculty only, without creativity training. METHODS The Taiwanese version of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking-Figural (TTCT-F) instrument assessed students' creative thinking abilities at the beginning (pre-test) and end of the 18-week course (post-test). Differences in pre-test/post-test scores between groups were examined with analysis of covariance. RESULTS Comparisons between mean total and subscale scores for TTCT-F for the two intervention groups and controls demonstrated only Group 2 students (teaching assistants) had significantly higher scores than the control group. Teaching assistants also had significantly higher scores than Group 1. CONCLUSION Findings suggest interdisciplinary teaching benefited creative thinking abilities of nursing students holding teaching assistantships. Therefore, it may be more important to first emphasize improvements in academic performance for typical nursing students in Taiwan and then incorporate interdisciplinary teaching into nursing programs to improve creative thinking.
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- Hsing-Yuan Liu
- Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, No.261, Wenhua 1st Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, No. 5, Fuxing St., Gueishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan (R.O.C.).
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Liu HY, Chen NH, Wang IT, Wu SM, Han CY, Hsu DY, Han HM, Huang DH. Predictors of individually perceived levels of team creativity for teams of nursing students in Taiwan: A cross-sectional study. J Prof Nurs 2021; 37:272-280. [DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Liu HY. Inter-professional nursing education and the roles of swift trust, interaction behaviors, and creativity: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey. NURSE EDUCATION TODAY 2020; 95:104598. [PMID: 32992270 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Technological advances in medicine have generated an increase in the complexity of delivering quality medical care, which is a challenge to the healthcare system. Improving interdisciplinary teamwork among all healthcare staff is one approach to meeting these new challenges. Interdisciplinary teamwork can be improved through inter-professional teaching in nursing education, which provides instruction from at least two professions to teams of students from different specialties. Behaviors that foster collaboration and creativity in temporary organizations, such as teams, include swift trust, interactive behaviors, and team creativity. A better understanding of the relationships between these behaviors could help educators improve inter-professional education courses for nursing students. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted with 210 nursing students enrolled in inter-professional education courses with interdisciplinary teams that included design students. Three self-report questionnaires assessed nursing students' perceptions about swift trust, interactive behaviors, and creativity: 1) swift trust measured cognitive-based and affective-based domains; 2) interactive behaviors measured domains of constructive controversy, helping behaviors, and spontaneous communication; and 3) team creativity measured collaborative abilities. Scale scores range from 1 to 5; higher scores indicate more swift trust, better interactive behaviors, and greater team creativity. Analysis with Pearson's correlation coefficient and SPSS PROCESS macro was employed to test the mediating effects. FINDINGS Cognitive-based swift trust was positively correlated with all three domains of interactive behaviors (p < .01); all domains of interactive behaviors were positively associated with team creativity (p < .01). Mediation models indicated that interactive behaviors mediated the relationship between cognitive-based swift trust and team creativity. DISCUSSION Enhancing cognitive-based swift trust and interactive behaviors in interdisciplinary education for nursing students could promote team creativity. Faculty involved in interdisciplinary education courses for nurses should encourage interactive behaviors, which could increase cognitive-based swift trust among nursing students and improve collaboration and creativity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hsing-Yuan Liu
- Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, No. 261, Wenhua 1st Road, Guishan District, Taoyuan City 33303, Taiwan, ROC; Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, No.5, Fuxing St., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC.
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