The Effects of Augmented Reality on Prelicensure Nursing Students' Anxiety Levels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21456145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Ball (0000-0001-6712-0574), Leslie C Hussey (0000-0002-7652-2871) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 142-148 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Nursing Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0148-4834 • E-ISSN: 1938-2421 |
| Publisher | SLACK, Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3928/01484834-20200220-04 |
| PMID | 32130415 |
| OpenAlex | W3009116308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
BACKGROUND: Prelicensure nursing students experience high anxiety as they enter the clinical setting, which can have a negative impact on learning care performance and critical thinking. This study explored the viability of an innovative technological teaching strategy, augmented reality (AR), as a platform to prepare students and decrease their anxiety levels when entering a new environment. METHOD: A pretest/posttest quasiexperimental design was used to assess the effect of AR 360 photosphere on preli-censure nursing students' anxiety levels as they entered a new clinical environment compared with anxiety levels of prelicensure nursing students who participated in the traditional faculty-led orientation method. RESULTS: Students from three midwestern colleges of nursing completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory before and after completing the AR 360 photosphere orientation or a faculty-led orientation. An independent t test revealed no difference in students' anxiety levels between the two methods of orientation. CONCLUSION: Although there were no significant differences in nursing students' anxiety levels between the two methods of clinical orientation, the AR 360 can be a valuable method of orientation that saves faculty time and ensures more consistent and uniform content compared with the traditional faculty orientation method. [J Nurs Educ. 2020;59(3):142-148.]
Anxiety · Nurse education · Orientation (vector space) · Psychiatry · Trait anxiety · Augmented Reality Applications · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare · Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |