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. 2021 Dec:103:103161.
doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2021.103161. Epub 2021 Oct 1.

A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study

Şenay Topuz  1 , Neslihan Yilmaz Sezer  2 , Menekşe Nazlı Aker  1 , İlknur Münevver Gönenç  1 , Hatice Öner Cengiz  1 , Aslı Er Korucu  1
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A SWOT analysis of the opinions of midwifery students about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic a qualitative study

Şenay Topuz et al. Midwifery. 2021 Dec.
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Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the suspension of face-to-face education and its replacement with distance education. This has caused important changes in midwifery education.

Objective: To determine midwifery students' opinions about distance education.

Design: This qualitative study employed an exploratory case study design.

Setting: This study was carried out at a national university in Ankara, Turkey between December 2020 and January 2021.

Participants: The sample of the study comprised 50 students in the midwifery department.

Measurements and findings: Data were collected using a SWOT analysis interview form developed by the researchers. The research findings were grouped into four themes: Satisfaction with distance education, barriers of distance education, facilitating aspects of distance education, and concerns about professional career.

Key conclusions and implications for practice: Distance education in midwifery education in Turkey was found to have aspects involving obstacles and concerns in addition to many pleasing and facilitating features. Our findings suggest distance education can be used together with face-to-face education provided that its pleasing and facilitating aspects are supported and the obstacles and factors causing concerns are removed. Inclusion of distance methods in midwifery programs requires curricula to be updated and support from instructors and students for the development of the necessary infrastructure. There is a role for employing bodies to faciliate practice-based learning for new graduates to address their concerns with a lack of practical experience because of COVID-19 restrictions on placement.

Keywords: Distance education; Healthcare education; Midwifery; Pandemic.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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The codes of the theme of satisfaction with distance education.
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The codes of the theme of barriers of distance education.
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The codes of the theme of the facilitating aspects of distance.
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The Codes of the theme of Concerns about Professional Career.
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