title: Persuasive Technology in Nursing Education About Pain.
abstract: Mobile devices, as persuasive technologies, represent an important platform to promote changes in attitudes and behaviors. They are not only understood as tools, but as a learning process that provides different opportunities to learn how to learn. The objectives of the study were to measure the quality of a virtual mobile learning object, to measure the mental workload of the educational intervention, and to evaluate the learning results. This is a technological production study with a mixed method, quasi-experimental approach. Three simulated clinical scenarios comprise the m-OVADor@, allowing for a simulated evaluation of acute pain through interactive tools. The technology met the quality criteria for educational software, with low mental workload, demonstrating a significant strategy for learning about pain among nursing students.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Research Group, Technology and Health Informatics and Nursing, Federal University of Santa Catarina, SC, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Graziela
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.affiliation: Clinical Research Group, Technology and Health Informatics and Nursing, Federal University of Santa Catarina, SC, Brazil.
authors.forename: Grace T M
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Dal Sasso
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Informatics Core, Clinical Science & Translational Research, Medicine Texas A&M Health Science Center, TX, United States.
authors.forename: Sriram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iyengar
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D063731:Mobile Applications; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000379:methods; D010146:Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000451:nursing*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods; D013663:Teaching; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D016526:Workload