Effects of Bioethics Education on Biomedical Ethics Consciousness, Interpersonal Relationship Empathy and Social Empathy, Critical Thinking Tendency, and Moral Behavior

DOI:10.21742/IJANER.2021.6.1.05

AUTHORS

Nam Joo Je,Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Changshin University, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea

Meera Park*,Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Changshin University, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted on nursing college students to investigate the effect on biomedical ethics consciousness, interpersonal relationship empathy, social empathy, critical thinking tendency, and moral behavior after completion of the bioethics education program. The data was collected from March 15th to July 15th, 2020 from 46 nursing college students of K University who wished to receive biomedical ethics education and have consented to participate in the study. The 16-weeks of bioethics education program was provided, and the effect was measured at 8 and 16 weeks. A total of 183 questions of the questionnaire consists of biomedical ethics consciousness, interpersonal relationship empathy, social empathy, critical thinking tendency, moral behavior. The collected data were analyzed using IBM SPSS WIN/25.0. The Shapiro-Wilk test was used to verify the normality of the dependent variable and. the hypothesis test to verify the effectiveness of the program was analyzed by using mean, standard deviation, paired t-test, and Wilcoxon singed-rank test. As a result of verifying the effectiveness of the bioethics education program, there was a statistically significant difference in interpersonal relationship empathy, but there was no statistically significant difference in other variables. To accurately verify the effectiveness of the bioethics education program, it is necessary to measure the effects before, during, and after the program. Based on this, it is expected that the data can provide basic information for the advancement of the program in bioethics education for college students.