An Integrative Review with Word Cloud Analysis of Digital Escape Rooms in Nursing Education

Traditional interprofessional care education often encounters a problem: the lack of sufficient opportunities for trainees to collaboratively address practice cases. With the advent of information technology, integrating digital escape rooms into educational settings has emerged as an innovative pedagogical strategy for training that requires collaborative problem-solving. To investigate the progress of digital escape rooms in interprofessional care education, we conducted a comprehensive bibliometric and co-citation analysis by taking into account several databases, namely PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), CINAHL, and Medline. A total of 94 articles published between 2017 and 2023 were included for analysis. Several dimensions were analyzed to provide a comprehensive overview of digital escape room research in education as well as identifying publication trends, citation rates, the distribution of research across different fields, journal impact, international collaborations, and influential papers. The findings contribute to a better understanding of digital escape room research, which could be a reference to future investigations on the use of digital escape rooms as an innovative teaching strategy.