Virtual Escape Room Education and Triage

NCT07181772 | Enrolling By Invitation

• 2 other identifiers: 2024-BİAEK/07-3712-2025-01-50
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 122
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental design to determine the effect of triage training given to First and Emergency Aid students via a virtual escape room. This research aims to increase the triage knowledge of First and Emergency Aid students and to develop an alternative training method for healthcare professionals working in the prehospital field. The research hypotheses are: Hypothesis 0: Training provided to First and Emergency Aid students using a virtual escape room has no effect on triage knowledge. Hypothesis 1: Training provided to First and Emergency Aid students using a virtual escape room has an effect on triage knowledge.

Conditions

Student Education

Keywords

learning; triage; virtual escape room

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Triage knowledge scale

  The investigators expect the post-test score of the of the experimental group students to be higher than their pre-test score.

  2 weeks

• GAMEX

  The investigators expect the training provided through the virtual escape room to result in higher scores on the GAMEX scale

  2 weeks

Study Arms (2)

The group trained with the Virtual Escape Room game

EXPERIMENTAL

Students in the experimental group will play a virtual escape room game.

Behavioral: virtual escape room

The group trained with the power point

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Triage training will be given to students in the control group using the classical method of powerpoint presentation.

Behavioral: with Power point education

Interventions

virtual escape room BEHAVIORAL

Triage training will be taught to students in the experimental group for the first time through a virtual escape room game.

The group trained with the Virtual Escape Room game

with Power point education BEHAVIORAL

The control group was trained using the traditional method using power point.

The group trained with the power point

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 25 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Emergency and first aid students Having a smartphone

You may not qualify if:

• Not answering all the questions

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa: lead
• Biruni University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Biruni University

Istanbul, zeytinburnu, 34015, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Quek LH, Tan AJQ, Sim MJJ, Ignacio J, Harder N, Lamb A, Chua WL, Lau ST, Liaw SY. Educational escape rooms for healthcare students: A systematic review. Nurse Educ Today. 2024 Jan;132:106004. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2023.106004. Epub 2023 Oct 24.

  PMID: 37924674 BACKGROUND

• Lopez-Belmonte J, Pozo-Sanchez S, Lampropoulos G, Moreno-Guerrero AJ. Design and validation of a questionnaire for the evaluation of educational experiences in the metaverse in Spanish students (METAEDU). Heliyon. 2022 Nov 2;8(11):e11364. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11364. eCollection 2022 Nov.

  PMID: 36387471 BACKGROUND

• Löffler, E., Schneider, B., Zanwar, T., & Asprion, P. M. (2021). Cysecescape 2.0-a virtual escape room to raise cybersecurity awareness. International Journal of Serious Games, 8(1), 59-70.

  BACKGROUND

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Ass.Prof.

Model Details: Data Collection from Experimental Group Students: Students in the experimental group, assigned according to randomization, will complete a Personal Information Form and a Triage Knowledge Scale via Google Forms. A Virtual Escape Room game will be played during the Triage Training. After the game, the Game Play Experience Scale will be administered, and the Triage Knowledge Scale will be administered one month after the training.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 17, 2025
• First Posted: September 18, 2025
• Study Start: April 3, 2025
• Primary Completion: October 23, 2025
• Study Completion: December 30, 2025
• Last Updated: September 18, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL
• Time Frame: 3 months after the study ends
• Access Criteria: with web

Locations

TU (1)