COVID-19 Pandemic and E-Learning Satisfaction in Medical and Non-Medical Student: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid shift in student education style from face-to-face to electronic learning. Since the education satisfaction index is considered as a measure of the quality of educational services, therefore, this study aimed to assess E-Learning Satisfaction (ELS) in medical and non-medical students during COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Articles that had been published from 22 Dec 2019 to 4 Jan 2021 were identified through searching databases including PubMed, Scopus, Elsevier, Google Scholar, Web of Science and Iranian Scientific Information Database (SID), Health.barakatkns, IranDoc, Civilica and MagIran using the following keywords: “Distance learning”, “Virtual learning”, “E-Learning”, “Satisfaction”, “COVID 19”. We systematically reviewed all studies that reported ELS. In this study, meta-analysis was used to estimate the pooled ELS.
Results: Overall, 184 records were identified by the electronic search, of which 24 relevant studies were included in meta-analysis. The pooled ELS in medical, non-medical and overall were 58.1% (50.5%-65.7%), 70.1% (66.8%-73.5%) and 63.8% (58.9%-68.8%) respectively.
Conclusion: According to our results and lower ELS in medical students in comparison with non-medical students, designing new E-Learning methods for medical students has been suggested.
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38. Puljak L, Čivljak M, Haramina A, et al (2020). Attitudes and concerns of undergraduate university health sciences students in Croatia regarding complete switch to e-learning during COVID-19 pandemic: a survey. BMC Medical Education,20(1):020-02343.
39. Radu MC, Schnakovszky C, Herghelegiu E, et al (2020). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of educational process: A student survey. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 17(21):7770.
40. Fawaz M, Samaha A (2021). E-learning: De-pression, anxiety, and stress sympto-matology among Lebanese university students during COVID-19 quarantine. Nurs Forum,30(10):12521.
41. Kim JW, Myung S J, Yoon HB, et al (2020). How medical education survives and evolves during COVID-19: Our experi-ence and future direction. PloS One,15(12 ): e0243958.
42. Rahali K, Abidli Z, Khohmimidi A, et al (2020). Ibn tofail’suniversity students’ sat-isfaction evaluation towards distance learning and its impacts on the students’ mental health during the covid 19 con-finement. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Sci-ence,19(Special issue):S51-S7.
43. McCutcheon K, Lohan M, Traynor M, et al (2015). A systematic review evaluating the impact of online or blended learning vs. face-to-face learning of clinical skills in undergraduate nurse education. J Adv Nurs,71(2):255-70.
44. Libby LA, Boyd LD, Perry KR, et al (2017). Assessing Student Satisfaction with Face-to-Face Synchronous Distance Education in a Dental Hygiene Program. J Dent Educ,81(3):287-292.
45. Berndt A, Murray CM, Kennedy K, et al (2017). Effectiveness of distance learning strategies for continuing professional de-velopment (CPD) for rural allied health practitioners: a systematic review. BMC Med Educ, 17(1):117.
46. Tang B, Coret A, Qureshi A, et al (2018). Online Lectures in Undergraduate Medi-cal Education: Scoping Review. JMIR Med Educ, 4(1):e11.
47. Hafer J, Wu X, Lin S (2018). Impact of Scribes on Medical Student Education: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study. Fam Med,50(4):283-286.
48. Berry J (2009). Technology support in nurs-ing education: clickers in the classroom. Nurs Educ Perspect,30(5):295-8.
2. Adeli M, Gholami fesharaki M (2021). Evalua-tion of COVID-19 Treatment Outcomes in a Military Hospital and its Comparison with a Nonmilitary Hospital. Journal of Mil-itary Medicine,23(8):675-83.
3. Sohrabi C, Alsafi Z, O'Neill N, et al (2020). World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Int J Surg,76:71-76.
4. Açikgöz Ö, Günay A (2020). The early impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global and Turkish economy. Turk J Med Sci,50(SI-1):520-526.
5. El Keshky MES, Basyouni SS, Al Sabban AM (2020). Getting Through COVID-19: The Pandemic's Impact on the Psycholo-gy of Sustainability, Quality of Life, and the Global Economy - A Systematic Re-view. Front Psychol, 11:585897.
6. Qian M, Jiang J (2020). COVID-19 and social distancing. Z Gesundh Wiss,25:1-3.
7. Clemente-Suárez VJ, Dalamitros AA, Beltran-Velasco AI, et al (2020). Social and Psy-chophysiological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Extensive Lit-erature Review. Front Psychol, 11:580225.
8. Bruns DP, Kraguljac NV, Bruns TR (2020). COVID-19: Facts, Cultural Considera-tions, and Risk of Stigmatization. J Trans-cult Nurs,31(4):326-332.
9. Ahmed H, Allaf M, Elghazaly H (2020). COVID-19 and medical education. Lancet Infect Dis,20(7):777-778.
10. Taylor D, Grant J, Hamdy H, et al. (2020). Transformation to learning from a dis-tance. MedEdPublish,9.
11. Rose S (2020). Medical Student Education in the Time of COVID-19. JA-MA,323(21):2131-2132.
12. Camargo CP, Tempski PZ, Busnardo FF, et al (2020). Online learning and COVID-19: a meta-synthesis analysis. Clinics (São Paulo, Brazil),75:e2286-e.
13. Gholami-Fesharaki M, Akbari H, javad Ja-mali M, et al (2014). Inpatient Satisfaction in a subspecialty Hospital With a view to Accreditation from 2009 until 2012. Jour-nal of Health Policy and Sustainable Health,1(1).
14. Arambewela R, Hall J (2013). The interac-tional effects of the internal and external university environment, and the influence of personal values, on satisfaction among international postgraduate students. Stud-ies in Higher Education,38(7):972-988.
15. Lo CC (2010). How student satisfaction fac-tors affect perceived learning. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,10(1):47-54.
16. Nakhoda K, Hosseini M, Mohammadkhani K (2020). Determining Factors Affecting International Students’ Satisfaction among Iranian Medical Sciences Univer-sities: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Medical Education Development,12(36):16-24.
17. Nakhoda K, Hosseini MA, Mohammad-khani K, et al (2020). A Model of Satis-faction Promotion for International Stu-dents in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Payavard, 14(4): 297-310.
18. Moher D, Shamseer L, Clarke M, et al (2015). Preferred reporting items for sys-tematic review and meta-analysis proto-cols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement. Syst Rev,4(1):1.
19. Ibrahim N K, Al Raddadi R, AlDarmasi M, et al (2021). Medical students’ acceptance and perceptions of e-learning during the Covid-19 closure time in King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. J Infect Public Health,14(1):17-23.
20. Hashim A, Mustafa I, Shahid S, et al (2020). Student's satisfaction in online education programs among undergraduate physio-therapy students of lahore during covid-19. Rawal Medical Journal,45(3):507-509.
21. Al-Balas M, Al-Balas HI, Jaber HM, et al (2020). Distance learning in clinical medi-cal education amid COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan: current situation, challenges, and perspectives. BMC Medical Educa-tion,20(1):020-02257.
22. Alqurshi A (2020). Investigating the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on pharmaceu-tical education in Saudi Arabia - A call for a remote teaching contingency strategy. Saudi Pharm J,28(9):1075-83.
23. Amir LR, Tanti I, Maharani DA, et al (2020). Student perspective of classroom and distance learning during COVID-19 pandemic in the undergraduate dental study program Universitas Indonesia. BMC Medical Education, 20(1):020-02312.
24. Zhang Q, He Y-J, Zhu Y-H, et al (2020). The evaluation of online course of Tradi-tional Chinese Medicine for Medical Bachelor, Bachelor of Surgery interna-tional students during the COVID-19 ep-idemic period. Integr Med Res,9(3):100449.
25. Alqahtani N, Innab A, Bahari G (2020). Vir-tual Education During COVID-19: Ex-ploring Factors Associated With E-Learning Satisfaction Among Saudi Nursing Students. Nurse Educ,19(10):E18-E22.
26. Al-Taweel FB, Abdulkareem AA, Gul SS, et al (2020). Evaluation of technology-based learning by dental students during the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus dis-ease 2019. European Journal of Dental Educa-tion,12(10): 183-190.
27. Abbasi MS, Ahmed N, Sajjad B, et al (2020). E-Learning perception and satisfaction among health sciences students amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Work,67(3):549-556.
28. Sen V, Eren H, Kazaz IO, et al. (2021). Easi-ly accessible, up-to-date and standardised training model in Urology: E-Learning Residency training programme (ERTP). Int J Clin Pract, 75(3):e13683.
29. Sindiani AM, Obeidat N, Alshdaifat E, et al (2020). Distance education during the COVID-19 outbreak: A cross-sectional study among medical students in North of Jordan. Ann Med Surg (Lond),59:186-194.
30. Essilfie AA, Hurley ET, Strauss E J, et al (2020). Resident, Fellow, and Attending Perception of E-Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications on Future Orthopaedic Education. J Am Acad Orthop Surg,28(19):e860-e864.
31. Rodriguez-Segura L, Zamora-Antuñano MA, Rodríguez-Reséndiz J, et al (2020). Teaching challenges in COVID-19 scen-ery: Teams platform-based student satis-faction approach. Sustainability,12(18).
32. Sharma K, Deo G, Timalsina S, et al (2020). Online learning in the face of COVID-19 pandemic: Assessment of students’ satis-faction at Chitwan medical college of Nepal. Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ),18(2):40-47.
33. Al-Jaber MA, Al-Ghamdi SG (2020). Effect of virtual learning on delivering the edu-cation as part of the sustainable devel-opment goals in Qatar. Energy Reports,6: 371-375.
34. Elzainy A, El Sadik A, Al Abdulmonem W (2020). Experience of e-learning and online assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic at the College of Medicine, Qassim University. J Taibah Univ Med Sci,15(6):456-462.
35. Almusharraf NM, Khahro SH (2020). Stu-dents’ Satisfaction with Online Learning Experiences during the COVID-19 Pan-demic. International Journal of Emerging Tech-nologies in Learning,15(21):246-67.
36. Wang C, Xie A, Wang W, et al (2020). Asso-ciation between medical students' prior experiences and perceptions of formal online education developed in response to COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in China. BMJ Open,10(10): e041886.
37. Al Natour S, Woo C (2020). The determi-nants of learner satisfaction with the online video presentation method. Internet Research,31(1):234-61.
38. Puljak L, Čivljak M, Haramina A, et al (2020). Attitudes and concerns of undergraduate university health sciences students in Croatia regarding complete switch to e-learning during COVID-19 pandemic: a survey. BMC Medical Education,20(1):020-02343.
39. Radu MC, Schnakovszky C, Herghelegiu E, et al (2020). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of educational process: A student survey. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 17(21):7770.
40. Fawaz M, Samaha A (2021). E-learning: De-pression, anxiety, and stress sympto-matology among Lebanese university students during COVID-19 quarantine. Nurs Forum,30(10):12521.
41. Kim JW, Myung S J, Yoon HB, et al (2020). How medical education survives and evolves during COVID-19: Our experi-ence and future direction. PloS One,15(12 ): e0243958.
42. Rahali K, Abidli Z, Khohmimidi A, et al (2020). Ibn tofail’suniversity students’ sat-isfaction evaluation towards distance learning and its impacts on the students’ mental health during the covid 19 con-finement. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Sci-ence,19(Special issue):S51-S7.
43. McCutcheon K, Lohan M, Traynor M, et al (2015). A systematic review evaluating the impact of online or blended learning vs. face-to-face learning of clinical skills in undergraduate nurse education. J Adv Nurs,71(2):255-70.
44. Libby LA, Boyd LD, Perry KR, et al (2017). Assessing Student Satisfaction with Face-to-Face Synchronous Distance Education in a Dental Hygiene Program. J Dent Educ,81(3):287-292.
45. Berndt A, Murray CM, Kennedy K, et al (2017). Effectiveness of distance learning strategies for continuing professional de-velopment (CPD) for rural allied health practitioners: a systematic review. BMC Med Educ, 17(1):117.
46. Tang B, Coret A, Qureshi A, et al (2018). Online Lectures in Undergraduate Medi-cal Education: Scoping Review. JMIR Med Educ, 4(1):e11.
47. Hafer J, Wu X, Lin S (2018). Impact of Scribes on Medical Student Education: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study. Fam Med,50(4):283-286.
48. Berry J (2009). Technology support in nurs-ing education: clickers in the classroom. Nurs Educ Perspect,30(5):295-8.
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Nakhoda K, Ahmady S, Gholami Fesharaki M, Gheshlaghi Azar N. COVID-19 Pandemic and E-Learning Satisfaction in Medical and Non-Medical Student: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Iran J Public Health. 2021;50(12):2509-2516.
