2021 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages 320-328
Objective: To study the effect of an educational intervention program designed to improve the “listening-attitude” competence of rheumatoid arthritis（RA）nurses. Methods: A quasi-experimental intervention study design. Participants were RA nurses working in hospitals for RA in- and/or outpatients. An intervention group comprised of 77 RA nurses who joined the study after receiving listening-attitude training for interview skill development. In the study，they practiced their interviewing skills with at least one or more RA inpatients or outpatients after the training. A non-intervention group comprised 60 RA nurses who were randomly selected from the 1657 nurses listed on the Japan Rheumatism Foundation. The five factors and 23 items of the “RA Nurse Core Competency Scale”（Kanzaki et al.，2018）were used for measurement. Results: Using the RA Nurse Core Competency Scale，the intervention group of 63 nurses and the non-intervention group of 46 nurses were compared. The intervention group showed significantly higher scores at the beginning of the study for two factors out of five: factors 3，“smooth rheumatology care provision”，and 4，“practices and techniques to support self-care”. Therefore，the general linear model was applied in order to analyze score increase of each group. In the final between-subjects comparison，the main effects were again factors 3 and 4，“smooth rheumatology care provision（p=0.011）” and “practices and techniques to support self-care（p<0.01）”. Conclusion: Our intervention program designed to strengthen RA nurses’ listening attitude did improve their “listening-attitude” competence.
