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Thermal Infrared Imaging to Evaluate Emotional Competences in Nursing Students: A First Approach through a Case Study

During university studies of nursing, it is important to develop emotional skills for their impact on academic performance and the quality of patient care. Thermography is a technology that could be applied during nursing training to evaluate emotional skills. The objective is to evaluate the effect...

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Autores principales: Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar, Liébana-Presa, Cristina, Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto, Gundín-Gallego, Raquel, Álvarez-Barrio, Lorena, Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32354094
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092502
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author Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar
Liébana-Presa, Cristina
Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto
Gundín-Gallego, Raquel
Álvarez-Barrio, Lorena
Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo
author_facet Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar
Liébana-Presa, Cristina
Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto
Gundín-Gallego, Raquel
Álvarez-Barrio, Lorena
Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo
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description During university studies of nursing, it is important to develop emotional skills for their impact on academic performance and the quality of patient care. Thermography is a technology that could be applied during nursing training to evaluate emotional skills. The objective is to evaluate the effect of thermography as the tool for monitoring and improving emotional skills in student nurses through a case study. The student was subjected to different emotions. The stimuli applied were video and music. The process consisted of measuring the facial temperatures during each emotion and stimulus in three phases: acclimatization, stimulus, and response. Thermographic data acquisition was performed with an FLIR E6 camera. The analysis was complemented with the environmental data (temperature and humidity). With the video stimulus, the start and final forehead temperature from testing phases, showed a different behavior between the positive (joy: 34.5 °C–34.5 °C) and negative (anger: 36.1 °C–35.1 °C) emotions during the acclimatization phase, different from the increase experienced in the stimulus (joy: 34.7 °C–35.0 °C and anger: 35.0 °C–35.0 °C) and response phases (joy: 35.0 °C–35.0 °C and anger: 34.8 °C–35.0 °C). With the music stimulus, the emotions showed different patterns in each phase (joy: 34.2 °C–33.9 °C–33.4 °C and anger: 33.8 °C–33.4 °C–33.8 °C). Whenever the subject is exposed to a stimulus, there is a thermal bodily response. All of the facial areas follow a common thermal pattern in response to the stimulus, with the exception of the nose. Thermography is a technique suitable for the stimulation practices in emotional skills, given that it is non-invasive, it is quantifiable, and easy to access.
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spelling pubmed-72488912020-06-10 Thermal Infrared Imaging to Evaluate Emotional Competences in Nursing Students: A First Approach through a Case Study Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar Liébana-Presa, Cristina Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto Gundín-Gallego, Raquel Álvarez-Barrio, Lorena Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo Sensors (Basel) Article During university studies of nursing, it is important to develop emotional skills for their impact on academic performance and the quality of patient care. Thermography is a technology that could be applied during nursing training to evaluate emotional skills. The objective is to evaluate the effect of thermography as the tool for monitoring and improving emotional skills in student nurses through a case study. The student was subjected to different emotions. The stimuli applied were video and music. The process consisted of measuring the facial temperatures during each emotion and stimulus in three phases: acclimatization, stimulus, and response. Thermographic data acquisition was performed with an FLIR E6 camera. The analysis was complemented with the environmental data (temperature and humidity). With the video stimulus, the start and final forehead temperature from testing phases, showed a different behavior between the positive (joy: 34.5 °C–34.5 °C) and negative (anger: 36.1 °C–35.1 °C) emotions during the acclimatization phase, different from the increase experienced in the stimulus (joy: 34.7 °C–35.0 °C and anger: 35.0 °C–35.0 °C) and response phases (joy: 35.0 °C–35.0 °C and anger: 34.8 °C–35.0 °C). With the music stimulus, the emotions showed different patterns in each phase (joy: 34.2 °C–33.9 °C–33.4 °C and anger: 33.8 °C–33.4 °C–33.8 °C). Whenever the subject is exposed to a stimulus, there is a thermal bodily response. All of the facial areas follow a common thermal pattern in response to the stimulus, with the exception of the nose. Thermography is a technique suitable for the stimulation practices in emotional skills, given that it is non-invasive, it is quantifiable, and easy to access. MDPI 2020-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7248891/ /pubmed/32354094 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092502 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Marqués-Sánchez, Pilar
Liébana-Presa, Cristina
Benítez-Andrades, José Alberto
Gundín-Gallego, Raquel
Álvarez-Barrio, Lorena
Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo
Thermal Infrared Imaging to Evaluate Emotional Competences in Nursing Students: A First Approach through a Case Study
title Thermal Infrared Imaging to Evaluate Emotional Competences in Nursing Students: A First Approach through a Case Study
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title_full_unstemmed Thermal Infrared Imaging to Evaluate Emotional Competences in Nursing Students: A First Approach through a Case Study
title_short Thermal Infrared Imaging to Evaluate Emotional Competences in Nursing Students: A First Approach through a Case Study
title_sort thermal infrared imaging to evaluate emotional competences in nursing students: a first approach through a case study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32354094
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092502
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