Video-supported nursing instruction improved practice scores, while anxiety differences remained unclear
First-year nursing students receiving videos alongside traditional teaching scored higher on a laboratory skills assessment than students receiving traditional teaching alone. The study did not establish an anxiety benefit.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
Adding videos to traditional teaching improved nursing students' assessed ability to perform range-of-motion exercises, meaning movements through a joint's range. Anxiety scores were lower in the video group, but the difference was not statistically significant. The result concerns a laboratory assessment shortly after training, with no reported evidence about later clinical performance.
The abstract gives no size of the practice-score improvement or confidence interval. Students were assessed on a human model at one university, limiting conclusions about performance with patients or retention over time.
What researchers found
Observed laboratory performance
Video-assisted plus traditional teaching versus traditional teaching alone, one week after training. The difference was statistically significant, but its size was not reported.
What the students demonstrated
Students performed the taught movements on a full-size human model. An independent observer scored their performance using a practice-skills checklist. This outcome measures demonstrated technique in the laboratory, rather than patient outcomes or later workplace performance.
Anxiety was a separate outcome
The study also measured students' anxiety at the assessment. The between-group difference remained statistically uncertain, and anxiety scores were not significantly related to practice scores. Better observed technique therefore did not establish a parallel reduction in anxiety.
The original publication
The effect of video-assisted teaching on nursing students'practice skills and anxiety levels in Range of Motion (ROM) exercises: a randomized controlled study.
Melikoğlu SE, Demircan B, Yorulmaz YK
BMC Med Educ · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 40745306
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