Ana Graziela Alvarez1, Grace T Marcon Dal Sasso2, M Sriram Iyengar3. 1. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Postal Box: 5057, 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Electronic address: grazielaalvarez@gmail.com. 2. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Postal Box: 5057, 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Electronic address: grace.sasso@ufsc.br. 3. Medicine A&M Health Science Center, United States. Electronic address: iyengar@medicine.tamhsc.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Thousands of patients seek health services every day with complaints of pain. However, adequate pain assessment is still flawed, a fact that is partly related to gaps in professional learning on this topic. Innovative strategies such as the use of a virtual learning object mediated by persuasive technology in the learning of undergraduate nursing students can help to fill these gaps and to provide different ways of learning to learn. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the results in learning among undergraduate nursing students about assessment of acute pain in adults and newborns, before and after an online educational intervention. DESIGN: This is a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent study using pre-and post-testing. SETTING: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. PARTICIPANTS: 75 undergraduate nursing students. METHODS: Our study was conducted in three steps (pre-test, education intervention, post-test). Data were collected from November 2013 to February 2014. The educational intervention was performed using online access to virtual learning object about acute pain assessment, which students accessed on their mobile devices. CONCLUSION: A significant difference was seen in student learning (p<0.001) in the post-test compared with the pre-test results. The students understood the importance of the topic, and were satisfied and motivated by the technology and method applied. The use of persuasive technology such as small mobile devices as mediators of online educational interventions broadens learning spaces in an innovative, flexible, motivational, and promising manner.
BACKGROUND: Thousands of patients seek health services every day with complaints of pain. However, adequate pain assessment is still flawed, a fact that is partly related to gaps in professional learning on this topic. Innovative strategies such as the use of a virtual learning object mediated by persuasive technology in the learning of undergraduate nursing students can help to fill these gaps and to provide different ways of learning to learn. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the results in learning among undergraduate nursing students about assessment of acute pain in adults and newborns, before and after an online educational intervention. DESIGN: This is a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent study using pre-and post-testing. SETTING: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. PARTICIPANTS: 75 undergraduate nursing students. METHODS: Our study was conducted in three steps (pre-test, education intervention, post-test). Data were collected from November 2013 to February 2014. The educational intervention was performed using online access to virtual learning object about acute pain assessment, which students accessed on their mobile devices. CONCLUSION: A significant difference was seen in student learning (p<0.001) in the post-test compared with the pre-test results. The students understood the importance of the topic, and were satisfied and motivated by the technology and method applied. The use of persuasive technology such as small mobile devices as mediators of online educational interventions broadens learning spaces in an innovative, flexible, motivational, and promising manner.
Authors: Manuela de Mendonça Figueirêdo Coelho; Karla Corrêa Lima Miranda; Regina Claúdia de Oliveira Melo; Linicarla Fabiole de Souza Gomes; Ana Ruth Macêdo Monteiro; Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira Journal: Rev Lat Am Enfermagem Date: 2021-06-28