Impact of increased digital use and internet gaming on nursing students' empathy: a cross-sectional study
Background: The COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines had led to increased dependence and usage of digital devices for various human activities and internet gaming to the extent of risking vulnerable individuals to develop addiction towards it. Little is known on such risks among populations of nu...
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my.iium.irep.1005502022-10-11T00:52:33Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/100550/ Impact of increased digital use and internet gaming on nursing students' empathy: a cross-sectional study Wan, Ling Lee Muhammad Shyamil Rambiar, Puteri Nur Iman Rosli, Nurin Qistina Batrisya Nurumal, Mohd Said Sh. Abdullah, Sharifah Shafinaz Danaee, Mahmoud RT71 Study and Teaching RT82 Nursing As A Profession Background: The COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines had led to increased dependence and usage of digital devices for various human activities and internet gaming to the extent of risking vulnerable individuals to develop addiction towards it. Little is known on such risks among populations of nursing students and its impact on their empathy skills or trait. Objective: Determining the impact of digital use and internet gaming on empathy of nursing students undergoing remote learning during closure of learning institutions nationwide. Design: Cross-sectional online survey was conducted from October to December 2020. Settings: Two established public institutions located in Malaysia. Participants: A total of 345 nursing students pursuing diploma and bachelor nursing programs. Methods: Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ), Digital Addiction Scale (DAS) and Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short form (IGDS9-SF) were self-administered via Google Form™. Following principal component analysis of TEQ using IBM-SPSS™ (V-27), path analyses was performed using SmartPLS™ (V-3). Results: Despite the increased time spent on digital devices (Δ 2.8 h/day) and internet gaming (Δ 1 h/week) before and during the pandemic, the proportion of high digital users (1.4 %) and gamers (20.9 %) were low; and sizable ≈75 % had higher-than-normal empathy. Digital-related emotions and overuse of them were associated with lower empathy (β = − 0.111, − 0.192; p values < 0.05) and higher callousness (β = 0.181, 0.131; p values < 0.05); internet gaming addiction predicted callousness (β = 0.265, p < 0.001) but digital dependence correlated with higher empathy (β = 0.172, p = 0.009). Conclusions: Digital and internet gaming addiction potentially impact empathy. The negative impact of digital dependence can be attenuated by “digital empathy” – an emerging phenomenon becoming increasingly vital in digital health and communication. Churchill Livingstone 2022-09-17 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/100550/1/100550_Impact%20of%20increased%20digital%20use.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/100550/2/100550_Impact%20of%20increased%20digital%20use_SCOPUS.pdf Wan, Ling Lee and Muhammad Shyamil Rambiar, Puteri Nur Iman and Rosli, Nurin Qistina Batrisya and Nurumal, Mohd Said and Sh. Abdullah, Sharifah Shafinaz and Danaee, Mahmoud (2022) Impact of increased digital use and internet gaming on nursing students' empathy: a cross-sectional study. Nurse Education Today, 119. ISSN 0260-6917 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0260691722002994 10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105563 |
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Background: The COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines had led to increased dependence and usage of digital
devices for various human activities and internet gaming to the extent of risking vulnerable individuals to
develop addiction towards it. Little is known on such risks among populations of nursing students and its impact
on their empathy skills or trait.
Objective: Determining the impact of digital use and internet gaming on empathy of nursing students undergoing
remote learning during closure of learning institutions nationwide.
Design: Cross-sectional online survey was conducted from October to December 2020.
Settings: Two established public institutions located in Malaysia.
Participants: A total of 345 nursing students pursuing diploma and bachelor nursing programs.
Methods: Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ), Digital Addiction Scale (DAS) and Internet Gaming Disorder
Scale-Short form (IGDS9-SF) were self-administered via Google Form™. Following principal component analysis
of TEQ using IBM-SPSS™ (V-27), path analyses was performed using SmartPLS™ (V-3).
Results: Despite the increased time spent on digital devices (Δ 2.8 h/day) and internet gaming (Δ 1 h/week)
before and during the pandemic, the proportion of high digital users (1.4 %) and gamers (20.9 %) were low; and
sizable ≈75 % had higher-than-normal empathy. Digital-related emotions and overuse of them were associated
with lower empathy (β = − 0.111, − 0.192; p values < 0.05) and higher callousness (β = 0.181, 0.131; p values <
0.05); internet gaming addiction predicted callousness (β = 0.265, p < 0.001) but digital dependence correlated
with higher empathy (β = 0.172, p = 0.009).
Conclusions: Digital and internet gaming addiction potentially impact empathy. The negative impact of digital
dependence can be attenuated by “digital empathy” – an emerging phenomenon becoming increasingly vital in
digital health and communication. |
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Impact of increased digital use and internet gaming on nursing students' empathy: a cross-sectional study |
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