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ArticleJournal of educational evaluation for health professions2020

Effect of virtual reality training to decreases rates of needle stick/sharp injuries in new-coming medical and nursing interns in Taiwan.

Szu-Hsien Wu, Chia-Chang Huang, Shiau-Shian Huang, Ying-Ying Yang, Chih-Wei Liu, Boaz Shulruf, Chen-Huan Chen

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Article in Journal of educational evaluation for health professions, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Szu-Hsien WuDepartment of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chia-Chang HuangDivision of Clinical Skills Training, Department of Medical Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Shiau-Shian HuangSchool of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Ying-Ying YangDivision of Clinical Skills Training, Department of Medical Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chih-Wei LiuSchool of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Boaz ShulrufOffice of Medical Education, University of New South Wales Australia, Sydney, Australia.
Chen-Huan ChenSchool of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWUNSW Sydney · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeSenior nursing and medical interns' lack of familiarity and confidence with respect to practicing universal precaution for the prevention of occupational needle stick (NSI)/sharp (SI) injuries may harm themselves. Trainees' self-reported NSI/SI rate was known to be especially high during the first two months of internship in Taiwan. This prospective cohort study aimed to know the effect of new developed (virtual reality (VR) game, which uses the Gangne's learning model to improved universal precaution for NSI/SI prevention and decrease the rates of needle stick/sharp injuries in new-coming medical and nursing interns in Taiwan. .

methodsFrom 2017 to 2019, the VR system was developed and applied in training of 59 new-coming nursing and 50 medical interns. Occupational NSI/SI prevention was sought to be achieved through a game of right and wrong choices for safe or unsafe universal precaution behaviors.

resultsIn comparison with medical interns, a higher proportion of nursing interns have had the past experiences of deep occupational NSI/SI. Before VR training, the familiarity and confidence for NSI/SI prevention were higher among nursing interns than medical interns. Trainees with past experiences of deep NSI/SI exhibited better performance on the accuracy rate and time need for complete 20 decisions than those without past experiences in VR practice. The performances of all trainees were improved after VR training. A high proportion of trainees reported that the VR-based training significantly decreased their anxiety about NSI/SI prevention.

conclusionThis self-developed VR game system using Gangne's flow improved universal precaution for NSI/SI prevention and reduced the NSI/SI rates in the first two months of nursing and medical internship.

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Education, NursingVirtual RealityHealth PersonnelHumansInternship and ResidencyNeedlestick InjuriesStudents, MedicalStudents, NursingInternship and residencyNeedlestick injuriesTaiwanUniversal precautionsVirtual reality

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PMID31955547
PMCPMC7054630
OpenAlexW2999871692

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