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Journal of Integrative Nursing ›› 2019, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (2): 96-106.doi: 10.35437/intnur.issn.2663-4481.2019.01.02.06

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The Effects of Simulation-Based Learning Using Virtual Reality in Nursing Student: A Meta-Analysis

Run-Jie ZHANG, Shu-Jin YUE , Yun-Yue TANG, Zhi-Qi CHEN, Zi-Pan WANG, Jing WANG, Yu LI   

  1. School of Nursing, Beijing university of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 102488, China
  • Online:2019-08-27 Published:2019-08-27
  • Contact: Shu-Jin YUE, RN, PhD, Professor, School of Nursing, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Liang Xiang University Town, Beijing 102488, China E-mail: yueliang874@126.com

Abstract:

Purpose: To assess the effect of simulation-based learning using virtual reality (VR) on knowledge, affective, and performance domain outcomes of learning in nursing students.

Methods: A literature search was conducted using Cochrane library, PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, Springer and Ovid eight electronic English databases, independently by 2 of the authors from January 2008 to December 2018. The RevMan 5.3 program of the Cochrane library was used to analyze the data with mean and standard deviation .

Results: A total of 10 studies (5 randomized control trials (RCTs) and 5 non-RCTs) involved 630 nursing students. As a whole, simulation-based learning using VR appeared to have beneficial effects on the knowledge (I2=50%, 95% CI 0.35 [0.09, 0.62], P=0.009), have no significant difference on the performance (I2=97%, 95% CI 1.05 [-0.54, 2.63], P=0.19) and have a negative impact on the affective field (I2=0%, 95% CI -0.43 [-0.71,-0.15], P=0.003).

Conclusion: The existing evidences imply that simulation-based learning using VR might have a positive trend that is beneficial to knowledge and clinical skill acquisition. However, the best way of integration still needs further research to be identified.

Key words: Virtual reality, Simulation-based learning, Nursing students, Meta-analysis