Publications by authors named "Heli Thomander"
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- Vaccination is a key public health intervention, and health professionals with strong knowledge and positive attitudes toward it are more effective in providing vaccines, making it crucial for health science students to gain this knowledge during their education.
- The study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of health science students who took part in the EDUVAC Intensive Course, which utilized diverse teaching methods over five days.
- Results showed that students significantly improved their vaccination knowledge, with 93.5% agreeing they felt confident in their skills, indicating the course effectively contributed to their professional development.
The EDUVAC project aims to develop and implement a web-based course on educating vaccination competence among health sciences students. In the current study students' feedback and evaluation is assessed which guided the partners' efforts to improve the final course content and learning material that will be available for open access. After completing the web-based course, most of the students (N=103, 75.
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