Acquisition of Learning and Empathy Towards Patients in Nursing Students Through Online Escape Room: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Background: Currently, there are still prejudices and negative beliefs towards people with severe mental disorder. The stigma of healthcare professionals can affect both recovery time and patients’ own self-stigma. In universities, it is necessary to reduce these prejudices through training on menta...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Granada (UGR) |
| Repository: | Digibug. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digibug.ugr.es:10481/72729 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10481/72729 https://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S344815 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Escape room Stigma Serious mental disorder Educational innovation Motivation Empathy |
| Summary: | Background: Currently, there are still prejudices and negative beliefs towards people with severe mental disorder. The stigma of healthcare professionals can affect both recovery time and patients’ own self-stigma. In universities, it is necessary to reduce these prejudices through training on mental health. Purpose: The purpose of this research has been to assess the use of educational escape rooms as a learning and awareness strategy on stigmatizing attitudes towards people with serious mental disorders in university students. Methods: An online escape room has been designed whose narrative shows the daily life of a person with a serious mental illness. An exploratory qualitative study has been carried out to explore the perception of 44 university students from two Andalusian universities about this escape room. Results: The results of the study show that most of the interviewed students consider that the educational escape room has been a fun and motivating learning strategy, which has allowed them to learn cooperatively and empathize with the protagonist with a mental disorder. Conclusion: Online escape rooms can be a useful strategy for teaching health sciences students. Considering it a fun activity, students are more participatory and engaged to the curricular content, in our case, stigmatizing attitudes towards people with serious mental disorders. |
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