protocolSection identificationModule nctId: NCT06284252, orgStudyIdInfo id: TÜBİTAK-323S135, briefTitle: Virtual Game Simulation on Nursing Students' Physical Examination Skills, statusModule overallStatus: NOT_YET_RECRUITING, startDateStruct date: 2024-09-15, primaryCompletionDateStruct date: 2025-01-15, completionDateStruct date: 2025-02-15, studyFirstPostDateStruct date: 2024-02-28, lastUpdatePostDateStruct date: 2024-02-28, sponsorCollaboratorsModule leadSponsor name: Necmettin Erbakan University, class: OTHER, collaborators name: TÜBİTAK, descriptionModule briefSummary: The project is unique in that it will use virtual game simulation, a new learning method, and it will address the physical examination skills of nursing students, an area that has not been researched before. In the project, a randomized controlled research design with a pretest-posttest control group will be used. The population will consist of 200 second-year students enrolled in the Physical Examination in Nursing course at Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Nursing, Department of Nursing, in the 2024-2025 Fall Semester. 120 students from the population who meet the research inclusion criteria will be randomly assigned to control (n=60) and experimental (n=60) groups according to their general academic success score. In collecting data; Introductory characteristics form, skill checklist for physical examination of the heart, skill checklist for physical examination of the abdomen, skill checklist for physical examination of the respiratory system and an evaluation form for the effect of virtual game simulation on skill practice for physical examination will be used. In the project, three different virtual game simulations will be developed for physical examinations of the heart, abdomen and respiratory system. During the fall semester, theoretical and laboratory demonstration applications will be carried out by the project team. A pre-test will be administered to all students, and then virtual game simulations will be made available to students in the experimental group for three weeks. Then, the virtual games will be closed to the students and a post-test will be administered to the experimental and control group students. After the final test application, virtual game simulations will be made available to students in the control group. In pre- and post-test applications, students will practice physical examination skills on simulated patients at three different stations (heart, abdomen and respiratory system) and will be evaluated by the project team according to skill checklists. After the skill evaluations, the students in the experimental group will be given a form to evaluate the effect of the virtual game simulation for physical examination on skill practice and will be asked to fill it out., conditionsModule conditions: Simulation of Physical Illness, designModule studyType: INTERVENTIONAL, phases: NA, designInfo allocation: RANDOMIZED, interventionModel: PARALLEL, interventionModelDescription: Control group and intervention group, primaryPurpose: OTHER, maskingInfo masking: TRIPLE, maskingDescription: Participant blinding: In order to ensure participant blinding, all students will register to the site where virtual game simulations will be hosted.Statistics blinding: In order to blind the statistics expert, at the end of data collection, the website expert will share the collected data with the statistics expert as group A and B data. The statistician will perform statistical analyzes without knowing which group is the control and which group is the experiment.Researcher blinding: In order to ensure researcher blinding, the expert who designed the web page for virtual game simulations selected the students who registered on the website, using the "A" and "B" codes, according to the list he received from the statistics expert, on the website with a random group as control and one group as experiment. will assign it to the site., whoMasked: PARTICIPANT, whoMasked: INVESTIGATOR, whoMasked: OUTCOMES_ASSESSOR, enrollmentInfo count: 120, type: ESTIMATED, armsInterventionsModule interventions name: Virtual Gaming Simulation, outcomesModule primaryOutcomes measure: Skill assessment for physical examination of the abdomen (Pretest), primaryOutcomes measure: Skill assessment for physical examination of the heart(Pretest), primaryOutcomes measure: Evaluation of physical examination skills of the respiratory system(Pretest), secondaryOutcomes measure: Skill assessment for physical examination of the abdomen (Posttest), secondaryOutcomes measure: Skill assessment for physical examination of the heart(Posttest), secondaryOutcomes measure: Evaluation of physical examination skills of the respiratory system(Posttest), eligibilityModule sex: ALL, minimumAge: 19 Years, maximumAge: 25 Years, stdAges: ADULT, hasResults: False