ENHANCING SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT IN NURSING EDUCATION STUDENTS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA-BASED EDUCATIONAL GUIDELINES

Abstract

Background: Sustainability awareness is a multifaceted concept embracing knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors pertaining to environmental, social, and economic dimensions. It involves understanding principles like reducing ecological footprints, promoting equity, and ensuring long-term economic viability. So, the current study aimed to determine the role of social media-based educational guidelines on enhancing sustainability development in nursing education students. Design: To complete this study a quasi-experimental research design one group pre & post-test was used. Setting: The study was applied in the Faculty of Nursing, Sohag  University in Egypt using an online questionnaire via Google Form and submitting the following link (https://docs.google.com/forms/dle/1FHLP HKsd). Subjects: A convenience sample of all 600 nursing students were enrolled in the fourth academic year and obtained from social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp groups who already use social media, and agreed to participate in this study, and all of them took the pre-and post-test. Tool: The Sustainability Consciousness Questionnaire (SCQ) was introduced to nursing students through interventions by Whats App and Facebook groups. Results: After the study group was given social media-based educational guidelines, the study's mean score for nursing students' knowledge, attitude, and behavior toward sustainable development increased. A highly significant difference (p≤0.05) was seen between the pre and post-social media-based educational guidelines . Conclusion: The study's concluded that The social media-based educational guidelines has a positive effects on enhancing sustainability development among nursing students. Recommendation: The concept of sustainability development ought to be incorporated into nursing courses, according to the findings. To instill a culture of sustainability development among students, nursing educators should also broaden and update their knowledge on the subject.