Knowledge and Attitude of Nursing and Medical Students Towards Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality as an Approach to Tabletop Exercise
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https://doi.org/10.31436/ijcs.v8i1.421Keywords:
Augmented reality, Virtual reality, Tabletop exercise, Nursing students, Medical students, Knowledge, Attitude, Disaster preparedness trainingAbstract
Background: Augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) has been recognised as an excellent technology for many fields, especially emergency and disaster management. This technology can also be applied to one of the disaster exercises, a tabletop exercise (TTX). In TTX, a group discusses a simulation of an emergency led by a facilitator. This study aimed to determine the knowledge and attitude of nursing and medical students towards using AR/VR as an approach to TTX in emergency and disaster preparedness and its association with sociodemographic data.
Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional study with convenience sampling was conducted among 211 International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Kuantan Campus nursing and medical students from April to June 2022. Data were collected using questionnaires through Google Forms, available in English. The questionnaire for students' knowledge and attitude on AR/VR was self-developed, and a reliability test was conducted with reliability of 0.720 and 0.865 for knowledge and attitude, respectively.
Results: Most respondents have high knowledge and positive attitudes towards using AR/VR to approach TTX in emergency and disaster preparedness. It was found that the frequency of playing on a computer or mobile games is statistically significant regarding attitudes toward AR/VR. In comparison, no significant difference was identified between gender, ownership of computer/mobile devices, and period of daily internet use regarding attitudes towards AR/VR.
Conclusion: AR/VR can be beneficial in emergencies and disasters. The relevant authorities, predominantly in healthcare education institutions, can implement this advanced technology to prepare students for the future.
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