Objective.

Evaluate the educational efficacy of the forum book activity in students of the Nursing Degree of the Francisco de Vitoria University, on competences and prevention of gender violence.

Materials and methods.

Quasi-experimental, longitudinal and prospective study. The educational strategy was the forum book El faro de Santa Cruz. A thousand glimmers of hope for battered women. Knowledge about gender violence has been measured in two phases, one before and one after the training. In addition, a rubric of individual and group skills was used. For the analysis, the SAS 9.4 program was used for descriptive statistics and an inferential analysis using Student’s t-test to contrast possible differences.

Results.

The pre-training evaluation (mean ± standard deviation) was (5.15 ± 1.14) and in the post-training evaluation the results were (7.49 ± 0.86). In the individual skills rubric, on a score of 20 points a result of (19.22 ± 1.27) was obtained and in the group skills rubric, on a score of 16 points a (15.27 ± 1.16) was obtained. Continuing with the analysis of the rubrics, the individual score was (9.64 ± 0.60) compared to the group (9.61 ± 0.67).

Conclusion.

The educational strategy forum book is effective for the acquisition of skills by nursing students regarding the scourge of gender violence.

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