@misc{10481/72729,
year = {2022},
month = {1},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/72729},
abstract = {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.},
publisher = {Dove Medical Press},
keywords = {Escape room},
keywords = {Stigma},
keywords = {Serious mental disorder},
keywords = {Educational innovation},
keywords = {Motivation},
keywords = {Empathy},
title = {Acquisition of Learning and Empathy Towards Patients in Nursing Students Through Online Escape Room: An Exploratory Qualitative Study},
doi = {10.2147/PRBM.S344815},
author = {Rodríguez Ferrer, José M. and Fernández Jiménez, Carolina},
}