Comparison The Effect of Two Educational Methods Based on Virtual Social Network and Face- to- Face on Quality of Life and Self-Efficacy of Mothers of Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease: a quasi-experimental study

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Abstract: Introduction: Clinical education and its evaluation is one of the basic pillars in the nursing education system. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of two educational methods based on virtual and face-to-face social network on quality of life and self-efficacy of mothers of infants with congenital heart defects: a quasi-experimental study. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed on 54 mothers of term neonates with congenital heart defects who were hospitalized in neonatal wards or neonatal intensive care units of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (Children and Taleghani). The samples were randomly divided into two groups: face-to-face training and social network-based training. In the face-to-face group, three 45-minute training sessions were held by the researcher during a week. And in the training group based on the virtual social network, the educational materials are the same as the previous group in the form of text, image and educational video and audio materials. The results were analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistical methods. Results: Comparing the two methods with each other, the mean and standard deviation of quality of life between face-to-face and social network-based education groups before and after training did not show a statistically significant difference, but quality of life score 20 days after training. Showed a statistically significant difference between the two groups (p = 0.02). Also, the self-efficacy score before and after training between the groups of face-to-face training and virtual social network-based training within the group did not show a statistically significant relationship, but the self-efficacy score 20 days after the training showed a statistically significant difference between the two groups. Gave (p = 0.01). Discussion and conclusion: The results showed that face-to-face training using face-to-face verbal communication and more importantly with non-verbal communication during training and the possibility of receiving better feedback is still more effective. And in the direction of health education by nurses, it has a special place and also virtual education based on social networks as a modern education method with extensive resources and facilities that provide its users with knowledge and knowledge and with features because the lack of time and space and interaction, provides many capabilities in the field of education for its users, can be used in addition to face-to-face education to educate mothers of infants with congenital heart defects by neonatal nurses.