Training the public health emergency response workforce: a mixed-methods approach to evaluating the virtual reality modality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To produce and evaluate a novel virtual reality (VR) training for public health emergency responders.

Design

Following a VR training designed to test key public health emergency responder competencies, a prospective cohort of participants completed surveys rating self-assessed skill levels and perceptions of training methods.

Setting

The VR training sessions were administered in a quiet room at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia.

Participants

All participants volunteered from a list of CDC emergency international surge responders.

Outcome measures

Perceived impact of the training on responder skills was self-reported via a Likert 5-point scale questionnaire. Assessments were modelled according to the Expa

SUBMITTER: Bugli D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10173982 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature