An Escape Room for Nursing Students Taking Pharmacology Classes

NCT07073222 | Active Not Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: Istiklal University
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 32
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The study was planned as a pre-test-post-test single-group, quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effects of the education provided with the escape room game on the level of autonomic nervous system drug knowledge and perceptions of the game experience in nursing students taking the Pharmacology course. The sample of the study will consist of students enrolled in the Nursing Pharmacology course at the Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing in the 2024-2025 academic year, who meet the research criteria and agree to participate in the study. The study will be conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the necessary materials for the game development and evaluation process will be prepared and the content validity study of these materials will be conducted. In the second stage, the escape room game will be applied and data will be collected. The data will be collected with the "Descriptive Characteristics Form" and the "Autonomic Nervous System Drug Knowledge Test" (pre-test) before the escape room game, and with the "Autonomic Nervous System Drug Knowledge Test" (post-test) and the "Game Playing Experience Scale" after the game. The analysis of the data will be completed by transferring it to the IBM SPSS Statistics 23 program. H1a = There is a difference between the mean scores of the autonomic nervous system knowledge test of the students who participated in the escape room game before and after the game. H1b = There is no difference between the mean scores of the autonomic nervous system knowledge test of the students who participated in the escape room game before and after the game

Conditions

Nursing Student; Pharmacology

Keywords

escape room; pharmacology; gamification; nursing students

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Autonomic Nervous System Pharmacology Knowledge Level

  Autonomic Nervous System Pharmacology Knowledge Test (ANSPKT) measures the knowledge level of the study participants. ANSPKT contains 20 five-option multiple-choice questions (a minimum score of 0 and a maximum score of 20) on autonomic nervous system pharmacology, including sympathetic nervous system drugs (5 questions), parasympathetic nervous system drugs (5 questions), the effects of the autonomic nervous system on the body (5 questions), and autonomic nervous system neurotransmitters and receptors (5 questions). This test was evaluated by 40 second-year nursing students. Item analysis was conducted to calculate item difficulty and discrimination. Additionally, the test's KR20 reliability criterion was examined. According to the item analysis, the test was found to be of medium difficulty (0.65) and the KR-20 was found to be 0.76, indicating reliability.

  Before starting the escape game

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Autonomic Nervous System Pharmacology Knowledge Level

  ANSPKT was applied to the participants one week after the escape room game.

• perception of game experience

  a week after the escape room game

Study Arms (1)

Escape room playgroup

EXPERIMENTAL

Escape room game is played with escape room game group

Other: Escape room game

Interventions

Escape room game OTHER

Escape room games are live action team-based games where players discover clues, solve puzzles and complete tasks in one or more rooms to accomplish a specific goal within a limited time.

Escape room playgroup

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• First time registration in Pharmacology Course for Nurses,
• Volunteering to participate in the research

You may not qualify if:

• Having a high school, associate degree or bachelor's degree in a health-related field,
• Having difficulty in understanding and speaking Turkish.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Kahramanmaraş Istiklal University

Kahramanmaraş, Kahramanmaraş, 46100, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Masking Details: There is nothing
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: assistant professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 29, 2025
• First Posted: July 18, 2025
• Study Start: January 6, 2025
• Primary Completion: February 10, 2025
• Study Completion: July 30, 2025
• Last Updated: July 18, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)