title: Mathematics anxiety and its effect on drug dose calculation.
abstract: Eighty learners were randomly selected from 160 first-year nursing students enrolled in an urban community college nursing program in Ontario. They were subsequently divided into control and treatment groups to investigate the effects of different teaching methods on mathematics anxiety and the students' ability to accurately calculate fractional drug doses. The results obtained in this study indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between the control and treatment groups in either mathematics anxiety levels or in arithmetic test performance. These findings counter many of those found in previous investigations. Reasons for these discrepancies are provided along with recommendations for present practice and future research.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, Mohawk College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Fulton
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: O'Neill
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D001290:Attitude; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D009864:Ontario; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage; D011897:Random Allocation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations