The Effect of Digital Game on Assessing Nursing Students' Blood Pressure Measurement Skills

NCT06714968 | Completed

• 3 other identifiers: TABBOOrdu UniversityB-2417
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 96
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

In recent years, in order for students to develop their skills related to the nursing profession, to cope with new and unpredictable clinical situations and to increase efficiency in nursing education, application contents such as simulation, video and mobile applications, in which students are active one-to-one and should take responsibility, rather than laboratory applications in which instructors are active, are developed to provide students with the opportunity to perform clinical nursing practices. Mobile applications, which are becoming increasingly popular in health education programmes and are also called e-health applications, are widely used and it is stated that they positively affect students' motivation and increase academic success. Although the use of games in nursing education dates back to the 1980s, the use of digital games in education is not very old, but it is an increasingly used teaching method in nursing practices that continue to develop. In addition, it is very important to use innovative learning strategies for new nurse candidates who are called Generation Z and who will soon become nursing professionals. Because, Generation Z is a generation born into the technology environment and actively uses this technology. For this reason, in order to train nurses who are suitable and predisposed to the advancing technology, the nursing curriculum will ensure the support of the classroom and clinical environment, which will positively affect the quality and safety of patient care, and the organisation of a forward-looking, innovative and technology-oriented teaching curriculum will ensure the development of an easy and useful teaching method in teaching nursing practices. Method: This study will be conducted in the form of an experimental design for first year nursing students in the period of February-March 2023.

Conditions

Nursing Students

Keywords

Digital game, Nursing education,Blood pressure

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Arterial Blood Pressure Academic Achievement Test

  The test prepared by Ziyai and Dikmen (2022) to test the level of knowledge about measuring arterial blood pressure consists of a total of 20 questions with five options. The questions in the test were prepared according to the level of the students and the suitability of the curriculum. The success score of the students was evaluated out of 100. In the study conducted by Ziyai and Dikmen, the internal consistency coefficient of the test was found to be 0.75.

  Immediately after randomisation (first measurement) 15 days later (2nd measurement) 1 month after randomisation (3rd measurement)

Study Arms (3)

Control 1

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention was applied to the students in the control group, and 2 weeks after the pre-test application, the post-test interface was activated for the students in this group and the students were enabled to perform the post-test application.

control 2

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention was applied to the students in the control group, and 2 weeks after the pre-test application, the post-test interface was activated for the students in this group and the students were enabled to perform the post-test application.

Digital game

EXPERIMENTAL

After the pre-test application is completed, the students in the experimental group will be allowed to install the designed game application on their phones. After the installation process, students will be allowed to play the game for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks from the date of downloading the game, access to the game will be automatically blocked. After completing the application steps, when the student thinks that he/she is ready to apply the post-test, he/she will be able to perform the post-test application. In the post-test application, there will be no repeated return of the student to the questions or multiple answer submission. Two weeks after the application is completed, the knowledge test will be applied to the students again in order to objectively evaluate the learning. In this process, students will be prevented from accessing the application.

Other: Digital

Interventions

Digital OTHER

After the pre-test application is completed, the students in the experimental group will be allowed to install the designed game application on their phones. After the installation process, students will be allowed to play the game for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks from the date of downloading the game, access to the game will be automatically blocked. After completing the application steps, when the student thinks that he/she is ready to apply the post-test, he/she will be able to perform the post-test application. In the post-test application, there will be no repeated return of the student to the questions or multiple answer submission. Two weeks after the application is completed, the knowledge test will be applied to the students again in order to objectively evaluate the learning. In this process, students will be prevented from accessing the application.

Digital game

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Who agreed to participate in the research,
• Smartphone user,
• First year nursing student.
• Taking the Nursing Principles Course for the first time.

You may not qualify if:

• Graduated from health vocational high school,
• Previous knowledge of blood pressure measurement skills,
• Vertical transfer student,
• Wishing to leave the study at any stage of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hanife DURGUN: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hanife Durgun

Ordu, Eyalet/Yerleşke, 52200, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Officials

• Hanife Durgun

  Ordu University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Masking Details: The study was single-blind and the participants were blinded.
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Dr

Model Details: This study was a randomized, single-blind, parallel group-controlled trial.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 28, 2024
• First Posted: December 4, 2024
• Study Start: February 15, 2024
• Primary Completion: March 3, 2024
• Study Completion: March 20, 2024
• Last Updated: December 4, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)