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Virtual escapes: a pedagogical strategy for developing emotional competence in nursing students
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Médicas::Medicina Básica | |
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Médicas::Medicina Clínica | |
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Médicas::Ciências da Saúde | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 03:Saúde de Qualidade | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gomes, Lisa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cassar, Maria | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bugeja, Roderick | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, Inês | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cainé, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pereira, Rui | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chircop, Daren | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veiga-Branco, Augusta | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-08T13:46:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-08T13:46:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Emotional competence, the ability to manage interpersonal relationships through understanding one's and others' emotions, encompasses two dimensions: cognitive and behavioral. In nursing practice, the combination of these dimensions allows for better performance in highly complex clinical situations. Nursing education does not always emphasize these competences. This pilot study explored the potential of an escape room, a Serious Games (SGs) prototype with virtual reality (VR), as a pedagogical strategy for eliciting emotions in a safe learning environment. Participants' immersion in the game provided an opportunity to identify, manage, and process emotions. Data were gathered by a questionnaire and by observation of performance. The findings revealed that participants felt various emotions (n = 51) while playing the game. The least frequent reported emotions were hope, shame, and contempt. Admiration, pride, satisfaction, and fear were the most frequently reported emotions. These findings suggest that using a SGs prototype with VR as a pedagogical tool holds significant potential in emotion elicitation in a safe learning environment, implying its value as a construct of emotional competence. Further research to verify educational value is recommended. | eng |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by Erasmus + Programme, KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, KA203 - Strategic Partnerships for higher education, grant number 2020-1-PT01-KA203-078847. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gomes, Lisa; Cassar, Maria; Bugeja, Roderick; Oliveira, Inês; Cainé, João; Veiga-Branco, Augusta; Pereira, Rui; Chircop, Daren (2025) . Virtual escapes: a pedagogical strategy for developing emotional competence in nursing students. Creative Nursing. ISSN 1078-4535. P. 1-11 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/10784535251368947 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1078-4535 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1946-1895 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10198/34800 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Creative Nursing | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Serious games | |
| dc.subject | Virtual reality | |
| dc.subject | Pedagogical innovation strategy | |
| dc.subject | Emotional competence | |
| dc.subject | Nursing students | |
| dc.title | Virtual escapes: a pedagogical strategy for developing emotional competence in nursing students | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 11 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 1 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Creative Nursing | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| person.familyName | Veiga-Branco | |
| person.givenName | Augusta | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-7963-2291 | |
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