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Table 1 Nurses’ journey in the research process

From: Virtual patient simulation to improve nurses’ relational skills in a continuing education context: a convergent mixed methods study

Enrollment, intervention and data collection

Activities

Enrollment: pre-intervention and recruitment

[March 22–August 5, 2019]

Received online information about the study and the consent form (LimeSurvey)

Agreed to previously meet eligibility criteria to get access to the sociodemographic questionnaire: holding a valid nurse’s practice licence (participants had to click this criterion online on LimeSurvey)

Filled out online pre-intervention questionnaire, including sociodemographic characteristics, computer literacy skills, MI training, and recruitment strategies (LimeSurvey)

Virtual patient simulation intervention (approximately 45 min)

[March 22–August 5, 2019]

Received access to the MedicActiv [34] simulation platform via a secure URL that contained a unique code for the study

Created an online account

Watched prebriefing video or read scripted text

Had unlimited access and exposition to full simulated scenario (including the patient’s electronic record, glossary, and the preprogrammed nurse-patient consultation) during the study period

Data collection (post-intervention)

Quantitative component [March 22–August 5, 2019]

Qualitative component [September 2019]

Received online post-test survey (LimeSurvey); completion was mandatory to receive a certificate for three hours of accredited CE. Participants who finished all the VP simulation and filled out the post-test survey were qualified as “completers.” The others were called “non-completers (i.e. they completed at least the pre-intervention questionnaire, but did not finish the VP simulation).

Participated in an online focus group (voluntary)