Parental Accompaniment in Operating Rooms Reduces Child Anxiety.

Background: We believe that parental presence before the induction of anesthesia for surgery among children with a cleft palate/lip would be effective in mitigating their preoperative anxiety.

Objective: We assessed the states of patients with a cleft palate/lip when their parents accompanied them into operating rooms and clarified their and their parents' cognition using a questionnaire.

Methods: Data were collected via nursing observation when patients and their parents entered the operating room.

Role of peer learning and self-efficacy in parasympathetic activity during the simulation learning process in nursing students.

Aims: This study aimed to investigate the stress level, including parasympathetic nervous activity, of students engaged in peer learning during simulations and the role of self-efficacy.

Design: Observational-comparative study.

Methods: The participants were 76 nursing students who were asked to evaluate a stable postoperative patient in Scene 1 and the same patient bleeding in Scene 2.

Stress and anxiety in nursing students between individual and peer simulations.

Background: The use of high-fidelity simulation practice as an educational tool is becoming increasingly prevalent in nursing education. Despite the learning effects of simulation practice, students have been shown to experience high levels of stress and anxiety during simulation. In recent years, peer learning has been defined as an acquisition of knowledge and skills through active support and support among equal or equal peers and has been shown to be an effective educational intervention for clinical health science students.

Heart rate variability can clarify students' level of stress during nursing simulation.

Simulation is regarded as an effective educational method for the delivery of clinical scenarios. However, exposure to unfamiliar environments during simulation can cause excessive stress among students, possibly leading to unnatural speech/behavior and poor skill learning (Yerkes-Dodson's law). Thus, assessing students' stress in a simulation can provide educators with a better understanding of their mental state.