Evaluation of Leadership and Mentorship Program in Clinical Education of Midwifery Students

Determining the effectiveness of leadership and clinical mentorship programs on the clinical competence of midwifery students and maternal and neonatal outcomes.

This study will be conducted as a clinical trial with a control group as an open trial, with parallel groups, and randomized on 30 students and 420 patients. Simple randomization will be used for randomization.

The present study will be conducted in Sina and Taleghani hospitals of Ahvaz city as a randomized clinical trial. At the beginning of the research, in the first two months of the beginning of the semester, the control group, who will be randomly selected, will enter the research and will go through the maternity internship unit according to the usual routine by the relevant trainer, and the clinical training will be in the usual way. After the end of the internship period (which lasts for two months), the students of the intervention group will enter the research. In this group, clinical training will be implemented in the form of mentorship and leadership.

Inclusion criteria for midwifery students: final year midwifery students. For midwifery trainers: have at least a master's degree in midwifery; have at least five years of work experience in a maternity unit. For service recipients: low-risk pregnant women admitted to the maternity hospital for childbirth. Exclusion criteria: guest students, non-staff instructors of Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, and high-risk pregnancy.

Mentorship method will be used in the intervention group for midwifery clinical training. And in the control group, midwifery clinical training will be done in a traditional and conventional way according to the usual routine.

The main outcome variables include students' clinical competence, and students' satisfaction

In order to generate the random sequence, simple randomization will be used in such a way that by using a table of random numbers based on the list of names and student numbers of final year midwifery students, people will be randomly placed in two groups A and B. The table of random numbers used in this research will include numbers that will be placed next to each other in rows and columns in the form of five-digit blocks and separately. To use this table, we will assign two-digit codes corresponding to the last two numbers of the student number, such as 01, 02,..., 29, 30, according to the exact size of the sample (30 students). Then the researcher will randomly start from a point to select sample people from the table. For this purpose, the researcher will choose the starting point by closing his eyes and placing the tip of the pen on the table, then she will move in the direction of the row or column until numbers choose the one whose last two digits (i.e. the two digits on the right side of each block of five) are smaller than the sample size (which actually corresponds to the student number of the sample). This process will continue until the sample volume is completed. The first 15 selected codes will belong to group A and the next 15 codes will belong to group B. It should be noted that the nature of two groups A and B is not known in advance. Next to randomly assign the two research groups as well as to concealment random allocation according to the same groups A and B, and according to the corresponding codes in sequentially numbered, opaque, sealed envelopes, by an out -of -study person with no information There is no research goals.

All data and results of the research will be provided to Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences Ahvaz and Sina and Taleghani Hospitals

It will be possible to access the research documents six months after the final statistical analysis and the end of the qualitative phase of the study.

The data will be available only for the use of researchers of academic institutions.

In order to develop research in the field of clinical education of medical sciences and mentorship

In order to receive the data, people can refer to the main executive of the project, Dr. Mina Irvani, a member of the academic staff of Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz.

After obtaining the necessary permits from the Jundi Shapur University of Medical Sciences and the Vice-Chancellor of Research and Technology of this university, the applicant can proceed to receive the documents.