Virtual Reality Simulation's Influence on Nursing Students' Anxiety and Communication Skills With Anxious Patients: A Pilot Study

Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health disorder in the United States and globally, with approximately 40 million United States adults experiencing anxiety each year (Anxiety& Depression  Association of America, 2022), and 45.82 million anxiety cases across the world (Yang et al., 2021). Unfortunately, many anxiety sufferers go undiagnosed or untreated because of a perceived negative societal stigma, personal embarrassment, or normalization of symptoms (Sari& Yuliastuti,  2018; Wei, McGrath, Hayden,& Kutcher, 2015, 2016).
Source: Clinical Simulation in Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research