The impact of brief mindfulness meditation on anxiety, cognitive load, and teamwork in emergency simulation training: A randomized controlled trial.
Nurse education today January 1, 2024 Kamal Takhdat, Houssam Rebahi, Deborah M Rooney et al. 17 citations
A brief mindfulness meditation practice before emergency simulation training helps health professions students manage state-anxiety, improve cognitive load, and enhance teamwork during the simulations. In a pilot randomized controlled study with 70 undergraduate students, those who completed a four-week mindfulness training program showed better scores on state-anxiety, cognitive load, and teamwork in two simulation assessments compared to the control group. However, no significant differences were found between groups for trait-anxiety or mindfulness at the six-month follow-up. The findings suggest that incorporating short mindfulness meditation into simulation design may benefit students' immediate psychological and team performance.