The Effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Self-efficacy Belief and Entrepreneurial Intention of Midwifery Graduates
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Date
2025-04-30
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Brieflands
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Background: Today, the need for entrepreneurial graduates and students has increased, and the goal of many prestigious universities in the world is to teach entrepreneurship to students and, as a result, deliver entrepreneurial graduates to society. Accordingly, cultivating the entrepreneurial talent of graduates as a national agenda for the development of entrepreneurship has attracted the attention of policymakers and universities in countries. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of entrepreneurship education on self-efficacy beliefs and entrepreneurial intention of midwifery graduates. Methods: This study is a quasi-experimental study. The statistical population of the study consisted of 76 midwifery undergraduates who graduated in the 2017 - 2018 academic year, who were divided into two groups using block randomization, including the intervention group (38 people) and the control group (38 people). Sherer's General Self-efficacy Scale and the Liñán and Chen Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (EIQ) were used to collect data. The data were analyzed using parametric and nonparametric tests, including independent and paired t-tests, Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon, and chi-square tests, using SPSS version 23 software. Results: The results of the study showed that the average score of the "entrepreneurial intention" variable in the intervention group changed from 143 ± 2 to 243 ± 1.02 in the pre-training stages compared to before, and from 142 ± 4 to 196 ± 1 in the control group, which in both groups had a significant difference between the values before and after the training (P < 0.0001). In the intervention group, the self-efficacy belief score before and after the educational intervention was 45 ± 2 and 84 ± 0, respectively, which was significant difference. In the control group, the self-efficacy belief score were 45 ± 2 and 40 ± 0, respectively, which also was statistically significant difference (P < 0.0001). Conclusions: The present study indicates that entrepreneurship education is effective on midwives' self-efficacy beliefs and entrepreneurial intentions. Since midwifery students are considered the best asset for promoting an entrepreneurial culture, the findings of the present study can be used to design and enrich the entrepreneurship curriculum and empower students to promote an entrepreneurial culture.