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The effectiveness of an empowerment-based education for public health nurses in Taiwan
(2007-07-14) Li-Chun Chang; Chieh-Hsing Liu
The objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of an empowerment-oriented education on employee empowerment, job satisfaction, job productivity, and innovation behaviors for public health nurses in Taiwan. The study was a quasi-experimental design; public health nurses in two health bureaus in Northern Taiwan were assigned into an empowerment group (N=31) and a control group (N=29). Empowerment-oriented education lasting 4 weeks, twenty-four hours was consisted of four empowerment curriculums and four group workshops for each curriculum designed to operate principles of empowerment into individual work environment. The principles of empowerment using problem-posing strategies were based on the cycle of “dialogue-reflection-action” to stimulate participants to aware of the conditions that constrains their freedom and taking actions to change those conditions. Data were collected at baseline and 4 weeks following intervention. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analysis the intervention effect. The results in this study showed that the intervention of empowerment education had significant effectiveness on psychological empowerment and subscales of self-efficacy and impact, innovative behavior and work productivity but no effectiveness on organizational empowerment and job satisfaction for public health nurses. The results of this study suggested that health department should hold empowerment education for in-serving education regularly as to improve employee’s empowerment and work productivity. Besides this, health department should redesign public health tasks and build communication channels to dismiss the vision and information from organization. For presenting more effectiveness for empowerment, the further studies should add other empowered indicators and combine other research methods.
Experience and Effectiveness of an Empowerment-oriented Education for Public Health Nurses in Taiwan
(2007-11-07) Li-Chun Chang; Chieh-Hsing Liu
The objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of an empowerment-oriented education on employee empowerment, job satisfaction, job productivity, and innovation behaviors for public health nurses in Taiwan. The study was a quasi-experimental design; public health nurses in two health bureaus in Northern Taiwan were assigned into an empowerment group (N=31) and a control group (N=29). Empowerment-oriented education lasting 4 weeks, twenty-four hours was consisted of four empowerment curriculums and group workshops for each curriculum designed to operate principles of empowerment into individual work environment. The principles of empowerment using problem-posing strategies were based on the cycle of “dialogue-reflection-action” to stimulate participants to aware of the conditions that constrains their freedom and taking actions to change those conditions. Data were collected at baseline and 4 weeks following intervention. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analysis the intervention effect. The results in this study showed that the intervention of empowerment education had significant effectiveness on psychological empowerment and subscales of self-efficacy and impact, innovative behavior and work productivity but no effectiveness on organizational empowerment and job satisfaction for public health nurses. The results of this study suggested that health department should hold empowerment education for in-serving education regularly as to improve employee's empowerment and job productivity. Besides this, health department should redesign public health tasks and build communication channels to dismiss the vision and information from organization. For presenting more effectiveness for empowerment, the further studies should add other empowered indicators and combine other research methods.
A Study of the Empowerment Process for Cancer Patients Using Freire’s Dialogical Interviewing.
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2004-03-01) Li-Chun Chang; I-Chuan Li; Chieh-Hsing Liu
The aim of this study was to illustrate the empowering process for cancer patients through Freire ' s dialogical interviewing. Fifteen interviewees participated in interviews over a period of three months. Five themes of dialogical interviewing for the empowering process were adopted including building rapport, assessing disempowerment issues, facilitating critical thinking, joint creation, resource connecting and positive feedback. Open-ended questions and participatory observation with reflective notes written by participants were used for data collecting. Constant comparison and content analysis were used for data analysis. The empowered outcomes at a personal level included redefining health, being confident, active involvement, revitalizing the sense of self, and the desire to live for themselves, negotiating the goals of one ' s care plan and having the strength to help others. On the basis of the empowered outcomes achieved through dialogical interviewing in this study, health professionals should apply this process to build partnerships with patients and help them to overcome the suffering caused by cancer.
影響幼兒語言能力之語文環境之跨層次分析－以家庭及教室語文環境為例
(教育研究與評鑑中心, 2015-03-??) 白華枝; 張麗君; 蕭佳純; Hwa-Chih Pai; Li-Chun Chang; Chia-Chun Hsiao
本研究以個體層次之家庭語文環境與群體層次之教室語文環境為自變數，探討兩者對幼兒語言能力之影響。以分層隨機抽樣的方式，共取得臺南巿134 位幼兒園教師、478 位5 至6 歲幼兒及其家長之有效樣本。經階層線性模式分析，研究結果顯示，在家庭語文環境層次上，社經地位、語文資源、語文活動，以及親子共讀對於幼兒語言能力有顯著的影響；在班級語文環境層次的語文教學活動對於幼兒語言能力有直接脈絡效果；教室語文教學活動在家庭社經地位與幼兒語言能力之間有調節效果存在。