Author(s)

Lola Noviani Fadilah^1*, Farid Husin², Juntika Nurihsan³, Tria Giri Ramdani⁴

¹Politeknik Kesehatan Kementerian Kesehatan Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia.
²Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.
³Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia.
⁴Dinas Kesehatan Provinsi Jawa Barat, Bandung, Indonesia.

Background: The skills of midwives in childbirth care competence are still inadequate. This problem is influenced by limitation experience of midwifery students of childbirth care in the field of practice area. That condition related to the proportion of midwifery students and case of childbirth woman was an imbalance. Midwifery students must prepare this competence in an education with childbirth care experience from practice in the laboratory and in the field of practice. Reflective learning is an appropriate learning method that uses experience as the basis of learning to improve childbirth care competence of midwifery students. Objective: This study is to analyze the effect of reflective learning implementation in childbirth care practice to improve students’ competence. Method: This research uses quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent control group design. The respondents were midwifery students in the fourth semester who had experienced the theory of childbirth care. There were totally 64 samples, 34 samples for treatment group and 30 samples for control group. Data were analyzed by using unpaired t test, Mann Whitney U and linear regression. Results: The respondents were homogeny in motivation and grade point of average (GPA). The improvement of childbirth care competency is influenced by treatment of 19.064 with R² = 57.7%. Conclusion: The implementation of reflective learning in childbirth care practice affected the improvement of students’ competence.

Reflective Learning, Competence of Childbirth Care, Midwifery Students

Fadilah, L. , Husin, F. , Nurihsan, J. and Ramdani, T. (2019) The Effect of Reflective Learning on Childbirth Care Competence of Midwifery Students. Open Journal of Nursing, 9, 209-220. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2019.93021.