1- Instructor, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Email: r_esmaieli@yahoo.com
2- Assistant Professor, Imam Hosein University, Tehran, Iran
3- Master of art Management of Information Technology Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4- M.D Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Background and Aim: Researches show that to teach thinking skills is a priority in educational programming of education centers. Critical thinking is one of the thinking education methods. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of Critical thinking on bedridden patients care process in nursing students. Materials and Methods: This case-control study was done on 30 female nursing students in clinical training of Gastroenterology as the case group of critical thinking and further 30 control students as the traditional system. The mean of improvement in the 2 groups was compared by independent t test and the mean of the scores before and after education. Results: The results showed that the mean age and the two previous semester scores were not significantly disparate in the case and control groups. The mean of study improvement scores had a significant increase after education in both groups (P ˂ 0.005), though the increase was more considerable in the case group (P ˂ 0.05 versus P ˂ 0.4). Conclusion: The results showed that educational status in the two groups developed but not so much in the case group versus the control. We propose a study on graduated nurses received a high level of critical thinking for a long time in future.
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General Received: 2026/01/25 | Accepted: 2011/03/15 | Published: 2011/03/15