Escape Room-Based Learning in a Neurological Rehabilitation Course: Academic Achievement, Performance, and Student Experience

NCT07712250 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 2026-XXK
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will evaluate the effects of an escape room-based learning activity in an undergraduate neurological rehabilitation course for physiotherapy and rehabilitation students. Third-year students enrolled in the Neurological Rehabilitation course will participate in a team-based educational escape room consisting of six stations. The stations will require students to apply knowledge and clinical reasoning skills related to neurological conditions, sensory assessment, the ASIA Impairment Scale, walking aids, neurological evaluation methods, and rehabilitation decision-making. The study will assess academic achievement, escape room performance, student satisfaction, and student experiences. Academic outcomes may be compared with course results from the previous academic year. Escape room performance measures will include completion time, completed stations, solved puzzles, hints received, errors made, and rubric-based performance scores. Students will also complete a satisfaction questionnaire, and a subgroup of volunteer students will participate in individual interviews. Participation will be voluntary and will not affect course grades. The activity may involve temporary video recording solely for same-day debriefing; recordings will not be used as research data and will be permanently deleted immediately after debriefing. No medical intervention or biological sample collection will be performed.

Conditions

Escape Room Simulation; Neurological Rehabilitation

Keywords

Escape Room; Gamified Learning; Physiotherapy Education; Neurological Rehabilitation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Academic Achievement: Midterm Examination Score

  Academic achievement will be assessed using the midterm examination score in the Neurological Rehabilitation course. Scores will be reported as points obtained from the course examination. Higher scores indicate greater academic achievement.

  8 weeks

• Academic Achievement: Final Examination Score

  Academic achievement will be assessed using the final examination score in the Neurological Rehabilitation course. Scores will be reported as points obtained from the course examination. Higher scores indicate greater academic achievement.

  16 weeks

• Academic Achievement: Overall Course Grade

  Overall academic achievement will be assessed using the final course grade calculated according to the standard course evaluation system. Higher scores indicate greater overall academic achievement.

  16 weeks later

• Escape Room Completion Time

  Escape room performance will be assessed by recording the total time required for each team to complete the escape room activity. Completion time will be reported in minutes. Shorter completion time indicates better task completion performance.

  Day 1

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Student Satisfaction with Escape Room-Based Learning

  Immediately after the escape room activity

• Qualitative Student Learning Experience

  16 weeks

Study Arms (1)

Escape Room-Based Learning

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will receive a structured escape room-based learning intervention within the Neurological Rehabilitation course. Students will work in teams of approximately seven and complete six educational stations involving neurological diagnosis, ASIA Impairment Scale interpretation, sensory assessment, walking aid selection and use, neurological evaluation methods, and clinical rehabilitation decision-making. The activity will include prebriefing, gameplay, and debriefing sessions.

Other: Escape Room-Based Learning

Interventions

Escape Room-Based Learning OTHER

The intervention will be delivered as a structured educational escape room activity within the Neurological Rehabilitation course. Participating students will be assigned to teams of approximately seven students and will complete the activity in a university laboratory arranged as an escape room. The intervention will include three phases: Prebriefing, Gameplay, Debriefing

Escape Room-Based Learning

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Enrolled as a third-year undergraduate student in the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department at Lokman Hekim University.
• Registered for the Neurological Rehabilitation course during the study period.
• Willing to participate voluntarily and able to provide informed consent.
• Available to attend the scheduled escape room activity.

You may not qualify if:

• Declines participation or withdraws consent at any stage of the study.
• Does not attend the scheduled escape room activity.
• Leaves the escape room activity before completion.
• Does not complete the required research assessments.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Lokman Hekim University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Lokman Hekim University, Ankara, Ankara

Ankara, 06370, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Central Study Contacts

Demet Öztürk, Phd

CONTACT

+905068394288; demett.ozturkk@gmail.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assis. Prof.

Model Details: This is a single-group, quasi-experimental, mixed-methods educational study. All participating third-year physiotherapy and rehabilitation students enrolled in the Neurological Rehabilitation course will receive the same escape room-based learning intervention.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 1, 2026
• First Posted: July 17, 2026
• Study Start: August 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): October 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 20, 2026
• Last Updated: July 17, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-07

Locations

TU (1)