title: High-Fidelity Patient Simulation Increases Dietetic Students' Self-Efficacy Prior to Clinical Supervised Practice: A Preliminary Study.
abstract: This study examined the effect of high-fidelity patient simulation (HPS) on dietetics students' self-efficacy before supervised clinical practice.
  
  
  
  This repeated-measures study was conducted during the 2012-2013 academic year. All students in a masters coordinated program cohort (n = 19) participated in an interprofessional HPS experience before clinical supervised practice. The students completed a 4-point self-efficacy scale in which 0 = not at all confident and 3 = fully confident, at 3 time points: before and after the simulation experience and 2 weeks after beginning clinical supervised practice.
  
  
  
  Using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, median confidence level differed before and after the simulation (1.5; interquartile range [IQR] 1.2-1.8; and IQR 1.3-2.0, respectively; P = .03) as well as after the simulation vs during the clinical rotation (2.2; IQR 2.0-2.4; P = .002).
  
  
  
  This study supports the use of HPS with dietetics students in a coordinated program. High-fidelity patient simulation increases dietetics students' self-efficacy before supervised clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: jjohnson22@gsu.edu.
authors.forename: Jessica D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Todd
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Catherine S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: McCarroll
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Anita M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Nucci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004046:Dietetics / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064686:Nutritionists / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016544:Patient Simulation; D020377:Self Efficacy; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: clinical supervised practice; dietetics students; high-fidelity patient simulation; self-efficacy