해외 단기 의료봉사활동이 간호대학생의 공감능력, 셀프리더십, 영적안녕, 문화적 역량에 미치는 효과

Abstract

This study was attempted to understand the effect of overseas short-term medical volunteer activities on the empathy ability, self-leadership, spiritual well-being, and cultural competence of nursing students.
 Among the nursing students from four local universities who participated in the overseas short-term medical volunteer program, a preliminary survey and a follow-up survey were conducted on students who agreed to the research participation agreement in writing, and the final study subjects were 34. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS WIN 21.0 program. The reliability of the tool was calculated with the Cronbach's α value. For the general characteristics of the subject, frequency and percentages were obtained, and the subject's empathy ability, self-leadership, spiritual well-being, and cultural competencies were obtained by means and standard deviation.
 After reviewing the normality of the subjects' preliminary survey scores for overseas short-term medical volunteer activities using Shapiro-Wilk test, the normality was satisfied, and the difference in pre- and post-score was analyzed as a paired t-test. The correlation between the subject's empathy ability, self-leadership, spiritual well-being, and cultural competency after short-term overseas medical volunteer activities was analyzed as Pearson's correlation coefficient.
 After participating in the program, the self-leadership of the study subjects had higher post-scores than the dictionary, but was not statistically significant, and there were significant differences in empathy, spiritual well-being, and cultural competencies. In addition, each variable showed a significant positive correlation with each other.
 This study included major areas in existing volunteer activities for nursing college students and was developed to strengthen students' global capabilities by expanding the place of volunteer work from Korea to abroad, which had an effect on the improvement of subject empathy, self-leadership, and cultural capabilities. However, many of the subjects who participated in this study recognized the importance of religion, and high life satisfaction, so it is difficult to see the results of this study as the pure effect of overseas medical service programs. Also because it was made up of a single object without a control group. You should be careful in generalizing the results of this study.
 In future studies, a study is suggested to verify the effectiveness of the program through the setting of a control group to more clearly confirm the effectiveness of the program, the expansion of the study subjects, and controlled experimental design.