Telesimulation as a Teaching-Learning Strategy in Nutrition Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Introduction: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, university teaching had to adapt traditional teaching to emergency remote education, looking for the best way to comply with the graduate profile. In the Nutrition and Dietetics career of a public university in southern Chile, the telesimulation tool was used in the subject of adult diet therapy II, taught in the seventh semester.

Objective: To determine the quality and satisfaction of students in the Nutrition and Dietetics career when using clinical telesimulation as a teaching and learning method in the subject of adult diet therapy II, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: The research design is quantitative, exploratory, non-experimental, descriptive and cross-sectional. with a non-probabilistic sample of 42 students who met the inclusion criteria. The telesimulation applied was protocolized, then the clinical simulation quality and satisfaction survey and a self-assessment were applied to the students. The statistical data were processed and the descriptive statistical analysis was carried out, the answers to the open question were analyzed qualitatively. The ethical aspects of the research were safeguarded according to the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.

Results: in relation to the quality and satisfaction survey in clinical simulation, they reported high satisfaction, with 75.87% of responses “strongly agree”. Telesimulation was associated with the concepts of learning, competence, strength and emotions.

Conclusions: Telesimulation is an efficient strategy through which theoretical and practical knowledge can be integrated in a controlled learning environment, favoring the achievement of skills. It is proposed that this strategy be incorporated for the evaluation of the final learning outcome of the subjects.