The Correlation between the Levels of Self-Efficacy, Hopelessness, and Motivation of Midwifery Students Who Were Having Education during the Pandemic Period: A Cross-sectional Study

Abstract

The research was carried out to determine the correlation between the levels of self-efficacy, hopelessness, and motivation of midwifery students who were having education during the pandemic period. The sample of the cross-sectional-analytical study consisted of 190 midwifery students. The “Student Information Form”, “General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES)”, “Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)” and “Motivation's Resources and Problems Scale (MRPS)” were used to collect the data. In the statistical analysis of the data, in addition to descriptive statistics, Independent Samples t-test, One Way ANOVA, Mann Whitney-U test, Kruskal- Wallis test, and Pearson correlation tests were used. In the study, a negative, statistically significant moderate correlation was found between the students' GSES total score average and the BHS total score average, and a positive statistically significant moderate correlation between the MRPS total score average (p<0.001). In the study, it was determined that most of the students felt incompetent in the clinical practice of online distance midwifery education that they received during the pandemic, and that half of the students thought that only online distance education was not appropriate for midwifery education, and it was determined that as students' motivation levels increased and their hopelessness levels decreased, their self-efficacy levels increased.