Effects of Emotions on Perceptions of Performance and Team Mood in Team-Based Medical Simulations

• In Event: Simulation and Its Effects in Professions Education

Abstract

Team-based medical simulations allow healthcare learners to practice skills within realistic environments. However, few studies examined healthcare learners’ emotions within team-based simulations and the effects of these emotions on performance or team mood. The present study evaluated how team leaders’ and members’ emotional states in team-based medical simulations affected perceptions of performance and team mood. Findings suggest that pre-simulation positive activating emotions was a positive predictor for perceived team performance. Negative activating emotions was a negative predictor of perceived individual performance, though has different associations with perceived team mood depending on when the emotion is experienced. Specifically, pre-simulation negative activating emotions was a negative predictor of team mood, while post-simulation negative activating emotions was a positive predictor of team mood.

Authors

• Keerat Kaur Grewal, McGill University
  Presenting Author

• Sayed Azher, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Matthew Moreno, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Lucia Patino Melo, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Reinhard Pekrun, University of Essex
  Non-Presenting Author

• Jeffrey Wiseman, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Gerald Fried, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Susanne P. Lajoie, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Ryan Brydges, University of Toronto
  Non-Presenting Author

• Allyson F. Hadwin, University of Victoria
  Non-Presenting Author

• Ning-Zi Sun, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Elene Khalil, McGill University Health Centre for Interprofessional Simulation
  Non-Presenting Author

• Jason Matthew Harley, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author