Measuring participants’ immersion in healthcare simulation: the development of an instrument

Advances in Simulation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hagiwara, Magnus Andersson ^a   Backlund, Per ^b   Söderholm, Hanna Maurin ^a   Lundberg, Lars ^a,c   Lebram, Mikael ^b   Engström, Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Armed Forces   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Healthcare simulation; Immersion; Instrument; Measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018797755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20590628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s41077-016-0018-x     Document Type: Article

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