Topic

Purpose

Study design, Participants

Interest in international exchange

Examining how nursing students’ interest of international exchange and international nursing change through overseas training procedure and their satisfaction for overseas training (Yamaguchi et al. 2013) [8]

Qualitative study, Questionnaire

80 nursing students

Clarifying the needs for education concerning international exchange activities and nursing, Understanding of the needs and awareness of international exchange, evaluation of where international exchange activities are consistent with the needs and interests of students (Nishito et al., 2014) [7]

Qualitative & Quantitative

Study, Questionnaire

124 nursing students

Needs to participate in international exchange

Investigating what college students expected and participated in the overseas training program and how they expected it (Kataoka., 2006) [9]

Qualitative Study, Questionnaire 8 nursing students

Nursing Students’ Views on International Exchanges (Hamahata et al., 2004) [10]

Quantitative study, Questionnaire, 330 nursing students

Understanding of different cultures

Considering the educational effect of the experience of a nursing student exchange program between Japan and Thailand (Ohue., 2016) [11]

Qualitative study, Questionnaire

description questions, 7 nursing students

Awareness of foreign residents

Examining associations between nursing students’ knowledge and interest regarding foreign nationals’ medical health challenges and international exchange experience among Korean and Japanese undergraduate nursing students (Ohnishi et al., 2017) [12]

Quantitative study, Questionnaire

68 Japanese nursing students

183 Korean nursing students

Examining the association between nursing students’ knowledge and interest regarding foreign resident medical health challenges and experience of international exchange as part of an evaluation of global health educational programs (Nishihara et al., 2017) [13]

Quantitative study

Questionnaire

68 nursing students