At present, the research on the effective teaching behaviors of clinical nursing teachers mainly focuses on the overall level of effective teaching behaviors and their relationship with other variables, ignoring the individual heterogeneity of the effective teaching behaviors of clinical nursing teachers. This study through latent profile analysis (LPA), aims to identify different effective teaching behavior profiles of clinical nursing teachers and explore the demographic and personal factors associated with these different effective teaching behavior profiles. This is a cross-sectional study. A survey was conducted among 842 clinical nursing teachers through demographic questionnaires, the Effective Teaching Behavior Scale, and the Self-Efficacy Scale. LPA analyzes the potential characteristics of effective teaching behaviors of clinical nursing teachers. The multiple logistic regression method was used to explore the predictors of different spectra. Three potential characteristics were identified: Profile 1- high effective teaching behavior group, Profile 2- moderate effective teaching behavior group, and Profile 3 - low effective teaching behavior group. Marital status, years of teaching experience and self-efficacy are predictive factors for different profiles. Most clinical nursing teachers are classified as type 1, and they have relatively good effective teaching behavior ability. Strategies such as enhancing self-efficacy, paying attention to the marital status of clinical nursing teachers, and focusing on training clinical nursing teachers with shorter tenure may be effective ways to improve the effective teaching behaviors of clinical nursing teachers in different situations.
Lin et al. (2026) studied this question.