What are the attributes of a good health educator?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this study was to examine the attributes that students and educators believe are important to being a good health educator in a non-clinical setting.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey of first-year health science students and educators involved with a Health Science course in Melbourne, Australia was performed. A convenience sampling approach was implemented, with participants were required to rate the importance of teaching attributes on a previously developed 15-item written questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were generated, with Pearson's chi-square statistics used to examine differences between groups. In total 94/147 (63.9%) of students and 15/15 (100%) of educators participated in the study.

Results

Of the 15 attributes, only 'scholarl

SUBMITTER: Ilic D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4939217 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature