title: Anxiety and performance of nursing students in regard to assessment via clinical simulations in the classroom versus filmed assessments.
abstract: To compare the level of anxiety and performance of nursing students when performing a clinical simulation through the traditional method of assessment with the presence of an evaluator and through a filmed assessment without the presence of an evaluator.
  
  
  
  Controlled trial with the participation of Brazilian public university 20 students who were randomly assigned to one of two groups: a) assessment through the traditional method with the presence of an evaluator; or b) filmed assessment. The level of anxiety was assessed using the Zung test and performance was measured based on the number of correct answers.
  
  
  
  Averages of 32 and 27 were obtained on the anxiety scale by the group assessed through the traditional method before and after the simulation, respectively, while the filmed group obtained averages of 33 and 26; the final scores correspond to mild anxiety. Even though there was a statistically significant reduction in the intra-groups scores before and after the simulation, there was no difference between the groups. As for the performance assessments in the clinical simulation, the groups obtained similar percentages of correct answers (83% in the traditional assessment and 84% in the filmed assessment) without statistically significant differences.
  
  
  
  Filming can be used and encouraged as a strategy to assess nursing undergraduate students.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP), Brazil, carlarst@eerp.usp.br.
authors.forename: Carla Regina
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: de Souza Teixeira
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP), Brazil, kusumota@eerp.usp.br.
authors.forename: Luciana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kusumota
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP), Brazil, martacris@eerp.usp.br.
authors.forename: Marta Cristiane
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Alves Pereira
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP), Brazil, titareli@eerp.usp.br.
authors.forename: Fernanda Titareli
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Merizio Martins Braga
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, United States of America, vgaioso@uab.edu.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pirani Gaioso
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP), Brazil, cristinazamarioli@usp.br.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mara Zamarioli
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP), Brazil, ecdcava@usp.br.
authors.forename: Emilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Campos de Carvalho
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001938:Brazil; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D018961:Educational Technology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods; D055815:Young Adult