Educational Escape Room Game and Nursing Students

NCT06451926 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Şırnak University
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 120
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will be conducted to determine the effect of educational escape room teaching on nursing students' skills in calculating intravenous drug dosage and applying fluid therapy. The research was planned in a pretest-posttest and retest randomized controlled experimental design with a control group. This study will be conducted in the Spring Term of the 2023-2024 Academic Year at Kafkas University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing. 1st year and 4th year nursing students will be included in the sample of the research. Power analysis was performed to determine the number of people to be included in the study. The power of the test was calculated with the G\*Power 3.1 program. Students will be divided into two groups, control and experimental, by randomization method. A total of 120 students were planned to be included in the study: 30 experimental and 30 control students for the first grade, and 30 experimental and 30 control students for the fourth grade. In order to conduct the research, written permissions were obtained from the ethics committee and the institution where the study would be conducted. The data of the research will be collected with the "Introductory Information Form-IIF", "Intravenous Drug Dosage Calculation and Fluid Therapy Application Knowledge Test-IVKT" (min:0-max:100), "Intravenous Drug Dosage Calculation and Fluid Therapy Application Skill Checklists-IVSC" (min:0-max:242) and "Game Evaluation Form-GEF" (min:26-max:130). Increasing the score obtained from data collection tools means that knowledge and skills increase.Data collection tools were presented to expert opinion for content validity. Content validity indexes were calculated and it was determined that the instruments were usable. The entire sample group will be given training on intravenous drug dose calculation and fluid therapy application. During the training, the subject will be supported by question-answer technique. Then, initial knowledge (pre-test) and initial skill (pre-test) will be measured with an objective structured clinical exam and scores will be calculated. According to the pre-test knowledge and skill scores, students from both grade levels will be assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group will play the escape room game in teams of five people according to the prepared educational escape room game plan. During this process, the control group will be given the right to work independently in the laboratory. The experimental group will play the educational escape room game once, and then the final knowledge (post-test) and final skills (objective structured clinical exam) of the experimental and control groups will be measured. Each student in the experimental group will be asked to fill out the game evaluation form. In evaluating the data, parametric or non-parametric tests will be used to determine whether the research data show a normal distribution or not. Correlation will be made to determine the relationship between pretest and posttest knowledge tests and objective structured clinical exam scores. Regression analysis will also be performed if necessary, based on the analysis results of the research data.

Conditions

Gamification

Keywords

Escape Room,; Nursing Students,; Drug Dosage Calculation,; Fluid Therapy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Measuring the knowledge level of the sample group

  The knowledge levels of all students who will participate in the study will be measured with the 'Intravenous Drug Dose Calculation and Fluid Therapy Application Knowledge Test'.

  Pre-test data will be collected in the first week of implementation (before randomization).

• Measuring the skill levels of the sample group

  The skill levels of all students who will participate in the study will be measured with 'Intravenous Drug Dose Calculation and Fluid Therapy Application Skill Checklists.

  Pre-test data will be collected in the first week of implementation(before randomization).

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Measurement of knowledge levels of experimental and control groups

  Post-test data will be collected after the educational escape game in the second week of the application (post escape room game).

• Measuring the skills of the experimental and control groups

  Post-test data will be collected after the educational escape game in the second week of the application (post escape room game).

Other Outcomes (1)

• Retest of skills and knowledge levels of experimental and control groups

  The test will be repeated two weeks after the post-test.

Study Arms (2)

Experimental

EXPERIMENTAL

escape room game (play group):The experimental group will play the educational escape room game. The experimental group will play the game once in total.

Other: Escape room game

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The control group will not receive any intervention.

Interventions

Escape room game OTHER

Educational escape rooms are live action games where teams use content knowledge to complete tasks and puzzles to reach a final goal, such as escaping from a room or completing a final puzzle

Experimental

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Volunteering to participate in the research,
• Being a first year nursing student,
• Being a fourth year nursing student
• First-year nursing students must be enrolled in the Fundamentals of Nursing II course,
• Fourth year nursing students must have taken the Fundamentals of Nursing II course,

You may not qualify if:

• Not participating in the training program,
• Not wanting to continue research,
• Incomplete filling of data collection tools,
• Incorrect filling of data collection tools,

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Şırnak Üniversitesi: lead

Study Sites (1)

Kafkas University Faculty of Health Sciences

Kars, Centre/Kars, 36000/36100, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Model Details: experimental group

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 13, 2024
• First Posted: June 11, 2024
• Study Start: May 13, 2024
• Primary Completion: June 11, 2024
• Study Completion: July 28, 2024
• Last Updated: May 21, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)