Effectiveness of An Android-Based Mobile App On The Concepts Of Management And Leadership Among Nursing Managers In Pekanbaru Hospital

Abstract

Hospital nurses have no time to develop their leadership and management skills as face-to-face provided by their own hospitals. There are so many nurses who needs training to become leaders and managers. The methodology for this research is A quasi-experimental study design was implored among 300 hospital nurse respondents at Pekanbaru hospital in Indonesia. Purposive sampling technique was used. A survey questionnaire was used as pre- and posttest. A newly developed android-based mobile software application was used as an interventional tool to be compared with the control groups who will attend a face-to-face education and training on leadership and management. The result is The high correlation between Experimental Before and After (0.979) highlights the intervention's success in significantly improving the experimental group’s leadership and management functions while maintaining pre-existing patterns, whereas the strong Control Before and After correlation (0.961) reflects consistent but marginal improvements with exposure to conventional methods. Cross-group correlations, Experimental Before vs. Control Before (0.848), Experimental Before vs. Control After (0.853), Experimental After vs. Control Before (0.881), and Experimental After vs. Control After (0.876) demonstrated shared baselines and a narrowing performance gap following both interventions. The experimental group showed a significant improvement in leadership and management performance with a mean difference of 12.8 (SD = 5.6, t = 18.29, p < 0.001), while the control group exhibited a smaller yet statistically significant mean difference of 3.3 (SD = 1.5, t = 4.40, p < 0.001), highlighting the greater impact of the targeted intervention compared to conventional methods. The overall analysis indicates that the Android-based mobile software application was effective in refining the leadership and management trainings for Indonesian nursing managers in Pekanbaru Hospital. The experimental group’s targeted training produced stronger and more consistent outcomes across functions compared to the control group, which only received exposure to conventional methods.