The Impact of Nationality on the Psychophysiological Stress Response and Academic Fulfilment in the Final Degree Dissertation

Ramírez-Adrados, Ana; Martínez-Pascual, Beatriz; Gonzalez-de-Ramos, Cristina; Fernández-Martínez, Silvia; Fernández-Elías, Valentín E.; Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier

doi:10.3390/ijerph18084035

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“…Values of these temporal domain variables were higher at the pre moment (M1), which reflects a parasympathetic activity closer to a basal state, a fact that contradicts the HR means results. In other research with psychology students, it was found that the HRV parameters sensitive to identify the autonomic modulation were PNN50, RMSSD, SD1, SD2, and HF [18], and with physiotherapy students, the sensitive parameters were PNN50, RMSSD, SD1 and SD2 [19]. With athletes' sample, PNN50, RMSSD, and HF were the parameters sensitive to identify the autonomic modulation [20], and with military population the parameters were RRSD, and RR interval mean [21].…”

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Autonomic Stress Response of Nurse Students in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

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Clemente-Suárez

2021

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The aim of the present research was to analyze the autonomic stress response of nursing students in a nursing Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE). We analyzed, in 41 s-year nursing degree students (20.1 ± 2.3 years), modifications in heart rate variability (HRV) to monitor the autonomic stress response before, during and after the 18 different scenarios of a complete OSCE. Heart rate mean response of nurse students was consistent with an anticipatory anxiety response at the beginning of the OSCE, showing a sympathetic nervous system activation, but HRV parameters show contradictory results. The most stressful OSCE station was the CPR maneuver, the stress response varying according to the station’s demands.

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Autonomic Stress Response of Nurse Students in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

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Clemente-Suárez

2021

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“…Other studies regarding physiotherapy students during their bachelor's thesis showed how sympathetic nervous system modulation remained high throughout the defense, showing low HRV values [5,6]. However, another study about the impact of nationality on the psychophysiological stress response in the bachelor's thesis indicated that the Spanish student group showed greater parasympathetic activity from the beginning to the end of the defense, compared to the French and Italian student groups [4].…”

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“…This new education model is integrated in the new European Higher Education Area Space (HEAS), which establishes a bachelor's thesis as a requirement for obtaining the bachelor's degree. The bachelor's thesis allows students to acquire basic research abilities, providing knowledge about scientific methods and their applications, before they finally 2 of 11 defend the project in a public defense before a court of professors [4][5][6]. University students consider the bachelor's thesis as the single-most cognitively demanding work at university, describing their feelings of anxiety and uncertainty [5,7,8].…”

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“…The academic performance of students could be affected by this stress response [15][16][17], because this is modulated by factors related with the nutritional profile, body composition, and psychological profile of students, as well as their use of masks in the actual-pandemic situation [12,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Specifically, previous research found how the bachelor's thesis produced a large anticipatory anxiety response for physiotherapy students that was not affected by factors such as nationality or the need to defend in native or non-native languages [4][5][6]. However, no previous studies have considered the effect of studying a double degree in this stress response.…”

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The Effect of Studying a Double Degree in the Psychophysiological Stress Response in the Bachelor’s Thesis Defense

Ramírez-Adrados

Fernández-Elías

Fernández-Martínez

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The aim of this research was to analyze the effect of studying a single or double degree in the psychophysiological stress response and academic performance of university students in their bachelor’s thesis defense. We analyzed the autonomic stress response, cortical arousal, subjective distress perception, and the sense of objective and subjective academic fulfilment of 84 single-degree physiotherapy students and 26 double-degree sport sciences and physiotherapy students during their bachelor’s thesis defense. The results showed that the bachelor’s thesis defense was a stressful event for double-degree students, showing an activation of the sympathetic nervous system and presenting a higher autonomic habituation response for the double degree students compared to the single degree students. We found higher mean grades during the whole degree and higher grades in the written and oral bachelor’s thesis academic achievements for single-degree students compared to double-degree students. No significant differences were found between single-degree and double-degree students in subjective distress perception and cortical arousal. No correlation was found between academic performance variables and subjective distress perception, cortical arousal, and autonomic modulation variables. We conclude that the bachelor’s thesis defense produces a large anticipatory anxiety response in single-degree physiotherapy students and in double-degree sport sciences and physiotherapy students. Double-degree students showed higher levels of habituation and adaptability to the stressful event, with a better autonomic response. Academic achievements were significantly higher among single-degree students compared to the double-degree group.

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“…The anticipatory anxiety response is a normal response, presenting an adaptive function since it prepares the organic systems (both physiologically and psychologically) to deal with a potential threat [ 1 ]. This organic response has also been evaluated in both military [ 51 , 52 ], and civil contexts where the level of contextual demand or stress is higher, such as commercial pilots [ 53 , 54 ], sports competitions [ 55 , 56 ], sanitary [ 49 , 50 ], or even academic events [ 57 , 58 , 59 ]. In this line, we should point out that the first incidence occurred only in the first take-off for all subjects, which is a source of additional stress to this anticipatory response [ 3 ], explaining this greater sympathetic modulation of the participants.…”

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The Effect of Expertise during Simulated Flight Emergencies on the Autonomic Response and Operative Performance in Military Pilots

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Parraça

Fernandes

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Heart rate variability (HRV) and performance response during emergency flight maneuvers were analyzed. Two expert pilots (ages 35 and 33) and two rookie pilots (ages 25) from the Portuguese Air Force participated in this case–control report study. Participants had to complete the following emergency protocols in a flight simulator: (1) take-off engine failure, (2) flight engine failure close to the base, (3) flight engine failure far away from the base, and (4) alternator failure. The HRV was collected during all these maneuvers, as well as the performance data (the time it took to go through the emergency protocol and the subjective information from the flight simulator operator). Results regarding autonomic modulation showed a higher sympathetic response during the emergency maneuvers when compared to baseline. In some cases, there was also a higher sympathetic response during the emergency maneuvers when compared with the take-off protocol. Regarding performance data, the expert pilots accomplished the missions in less time than the rookie pilots. Autonomic modulation measured from HRV through portable devices can easily relay important information. This information is relevant since characterizing these maneuvers can provide helpful information to design training strategies to improve those psychophysiological responses.

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The Impact of Nationality on the Psychophysiological Stress Response and Academic Fulfilment in the Final Degree Dissertation

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

Autonomic Stress Response of Nurse Students in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

Autonomic Stress Response of Nurse Students in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

The Effect of Studying a Double Degree in the Psychophysiological Stress Response in the Bachelor’s Thesis Defense

The Effect of Expertise during Simulated Flight Emergencies on the Autonomic Response and Operative Performance in Military Pilots

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