Teaching Fetal Development With Virtual Reality

NCT04444258 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 2020/263
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 84
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

In this study, it was aimed to design virtual pregnancy for pregnancy formation, fetal and placental development in the virtual reality environment and to evaluate the effectiveness of the designed virtual pregnancy on midwifery education. Our study, which will be the first in our second country in the world, aims to reduce the application errors and determine deviations from normal by examining the formation of pregnancy, maternal, fetal and placental changes, which form the basis of midwifery profession, before having clinical experience. In this direction, the objectives of our study are;

• Development of the virtual pregnancy application, which will be designed for the first time in our country,
• Ensuring the effective use of virtual pregnancy practice in midwifery education,
• Visualizing fetal and placental development with virtual pregnancy that will form the basis of midwifery education,
• To minimize the application errors experienced in clinical practices of midwifery students,
• To increase educational effectiveness, clinical and academic success by visualizing the formation of pregnancy.
• Measuring cognitive loadings of students after education
• Measuring students' sense of readiness

Conditions

Educational Problems

Keywords

virtual reality; midwifery student education; virtual pregnancy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• To provide midwifery students to learn fetal development week by week

  All three groups will be developed by researchers after 4 hours of theoretical training; "Fetal Development Assessment Information Form (FEGBF)" will be applied to evaluate fetal development and fetal physiology knowledge.

  Within 6 weeks after the fetal development virtual reality application is developed and applied.

Other Outcomes (1)

• Ensuring that virtual reality application in the teaching of Fetal Development focuses students' attention and mental potential on related stimuli, activities or events

  Within 6 weeks after the fetal development virtual reality application is developed and applied.

Study Arms (2)

Experimental I Group

EXPERIMENTAL

After the Fetal Development Assessment Information Form (FEGBF), a computer-aided and guided virtual reality application prepared by the researchers including the phases of the fetus week by week will be watched and then FEGBF will be applied again by changing the locations of the questions.

Other: Application of computer aided virtual reality glasses; Other: Teaching fetal development theoretically

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

FEGBF will be applied after 4 hours of theory training. Virtual pregnancy application will not be watched.

Interventions

Application of computer aided virtual reality glasses OTHER

Experimental I Group: After the Fetal Development Assessment Information Form (FEGBF), a computer-aided and guided virtual reality application prepared by the researchers including the phases of the fetus week by week will be watched and then FEGBF will be applied again by changing the locations of the questions.

Experimental I Group

Teaching fetal development theoretically OTHER

Control Group: FEGBF will be applied after 4 hours of theory training. Virtual pregnancy application will not be watched.

Experimental I Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 24 Months+
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Being at least a 4nd year student at the Midwifery Department of
• I. Karabuk University,
• II. 84 midwifery students will be volunteering to participate in the research.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Karabuk University: lead
• Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Karabuk University

Karabük, 78500, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Related Publications (5)

• Fealy S, Jones D, Hutton A, Graham K, McNeill L, Sweet L, Hazelton M. The integration of immersive virtual reality in tertiary nursing and midwifery education: A scoping review. Nurse Educ Today. 2019 Aug;79:14-19. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2019.05.002. Epub 2019 May 4.

  PMID: 31078869 BACKGROUND

• Williams J, Jones D, Walker R. Consideration of using virtual reality for teaching neonatal resuscitation to midwifery students. Nurse Educ Pract. 2018 Jul;31:126-129. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2018.05.016. Epub 2018 May 28.

  PMID: 29879636 RESULT

• Cooper S, Cant R, Porter J, Bogossian F, McKenna L, Brady S, Fox-Young S. Simulation based learning in midwifery education: a systematic review. Women Birth. 2012 Jun;25(2):64-78. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2011.03.004. Epub 2011 Apr 13.

  PMID: 21489894 RESULT

• Ohmaru T, Fujita Y, Sugitani M, Shimokawa M, Fukushima K, Kato K. Placental elasticity evaluation using virtual touch tissue quantification during pregnancy. Placenta. 2015 Aug;36(8):915-20. doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2015.06.008. Epub 2015 Jun 24.

  PMID: 26149518 RESULT

• Verwoerd-Dikkeboom CM, Koning AH, Hop WC, Rousian M, Van Der Spek PJ, Exalto N, Steegers EA. Reliability of three-dimensional sonographic measurements in early pregnancy using virtual reality. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Dec;32(7):910-6. doi: 10.1002/uog.5390.

  PMID: 18792418 RESULT

Related Links

• Hazar, H. U., \& Gültekin, S. Simulation Use in Midwifery Education. Life Sciences, 14 (3), 74-83.

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Prelector

Model Details: The sample will consist of 105 midwifery students, including 35 control, 35 experiment I and 35 experiment II, as a result of the G-power analysis calculated by 0.95 power, among the midwifery students who took theoretical 4 hours in their curriculum within the scope of the week of week, including fetal development.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 18, 2020
• First Posted: June 23, 2020
• Study Start: March 15, 2020
• Primary Completion: July 15, 2021
• Study Completion: September 10, 2021
• Last Updated: October 1, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)