ArticlePloS one2023
Nursing students' perceived anxiety and heart rate variability in mock skill competency assessment.
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- Clinical Skill Anxiety and Its Determinants Among Clinical-Year Health Science Students in Ethiopia: An Institutional-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Evaluation Models for Undergraduate Nursing Clinical Skills: A Scoping Review Protocol.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Disconnection Between Self-Reported Wellbeing and Heart Rate Variability from Wearables.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effect of AvTrachTracheostomy (Warrenville, Ill.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundSkill competency assessments induce stress and anxiety and may affect nursing student performance. Little is known about stress and perceived anxiety levels and their relationship in the mock skill competency assessment.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted to examine the stress levels (as assessed by heart rate variability, HRV) and perceived anxiety before, during and after the mock skill competency assessment, and to explore their relationships to performance in a total of ninety first-year undergraduate nursing students.
resultsThe HRV decreased significantly during the assessment and increased significantly 10 min after the assessment (p < 0.01). Higher performers showed significantly lower HRV during and after the assessment (p < 0.01). The assessment score was negatively correlated with HRV during and after the assessment (p < 0.05).
conclusionsConsidering assessment-related stress and anxiety through a mock assessment prior to the actual skill assessment provides implications for future nursing education.
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