Çayan Alkaç, Pınar Çelik, Beyhan Cengiz Özyurt, Ayşın Şakar Coşkun, Aylin Özgen Alpaydın, Tuğba Göktalay, Murat Demet, Ayşe Arzu Yorgancıoğlu
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virtual patients educational technological approach used healthcare education distinctive features rendered virtual patient technology appealing training medical healthcare students particularly enhancement clinical reasoning virtual patients less often applied continuous professional development practicing healthcare providers scarcity studies exploring possibility study aimed assess acceptability nurses using virtual patients continuous professional development approach study used quasiexperimental posttest setup design study conducted ten primary healthcare settings rwanda among 76 nurses consented participate study 56 completed intervention responded study questionnaire following oneweek program continuous professional development four noncommunicable diseases study used selfadministered questionnaire based technology acceptance model 3 collect data descriptive analysis served primary method analyzing participants responses study also used correlation test assess relationship variables across items questionnaire median response tended towards either agree strongly agree minority number participants expressing strong disagreement disagreement neutrality results indicated significant positive correlation perceived usefulness behavior intention p 0001 findings indicate acceptability behavioral intention adopting virtual patients alternative continuous professional development approach among nurses working health centers rwanda locations similar contexts