Exploring the validity and reliability of a questionnaire for evaluating virtual patient design with a special emphasis on fostering clinical reasoning

Abstract

The instrument has the potential to provide valid information about VP design, provided that many responses per VP are available.

How to tell a patient’s story? Influence of the case narrative design on the clinical reasoning process in virtual patients

“…Questionnaire 1 contained seven questions about demographic data, such as age, sex, exam grades, and clinical elective. Questionnaire 2 (Supplementary Appendix 1) contained 28 questions from a usability questionnaire (System Usability Scale 1986), a motivational questionnaire (Prenzel et al 1993), and a questionnaire designed to evaluate VPs (Huwendiek et al 2015).…”

A Theory-Based Study of Factors Explaining General Practitioners' Intention to Use and Participation in Electronic Continuing Medical Education

“…Huwendiek and colleagues developed and validated a questionnaire for evaluating electronic cases design with a special emphasis on fostering clinical reasoning (Huwendiek et al 2015). We used four of the seven items in the questionnaire and fitted them for the eCME context for GPs as the final satisfaction survey.…”

A Rubric to Assess Students' Clinical Reasoning When Encountering Virtual Patients

“…al., 2018). Huwendiek et al, (2015) published a framework for an instrument that appears to have reasonable validity evidence of medical student's perception of virtual patient design with a special focus on clinical reasoning. However, there are no instruments to assess the clinical reasoning process for nursing students as they encounter virtual patients.…”

“…To assess students' perceived usefulness of the learning activity and the encounter with the virtual patients, a validated questionnaire that had been translated into Swedish was used (see Appendix 2). The questionnaire: " Student questionnaire concerning their learning and clinical reasoning experiences with virtual patients", focuses on students' experiences of learning and the development of clinical reasoning skills (Huwendiek et al, 2015). The questionnaire was developed for different student groups in medical education.…”