Acquisition of Learning and Empathy Towards Patients in Nursing Students Through Online Escape Room: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
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Dove Medical Press
Materia
Escape room Stigma Serious mental disorder Educational innovation Motivation Empathy
Date
2022-01-11Referencia bibliográfica
Rodríguez-Ferrer JM... [et al.]. Acquisition of Learning and Empathy Towards Patients in Nursing Students Through Online Escape Room: An Exploratory Qualitative Study. Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2022;15:103-110 [https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S344815]
Résumé
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.