Clinical trial NCT04940455: Effect of Realistic Simulation and Digital Educational Platforms for Learning Nursing Student
Official title: Effect of Realistic Simulation and Digital Educational Platforms for Learning Nursing Student: Randomized Clinical Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Educational Technology
Keywords: Educational Technology
Simulation Training
"Learning"
Learning Curve
Active Learning
Nursing
Lead sponsor: University of Brasilia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-06-25
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Teaching modalities that integrate digital educational technologies, such as educational games, dummies and simulated environments, develop critical thinking in students, the absorption of significant learning and the consequent reduction in the exposure of patients to the damage associated with health care. Thus, this study will evaluate the effectiveness of simulation strategies and digital educational platforms in the teaching-learning process, in self-confidence and its implications for the physiological variables and stressful feelings of undergraduate nursing students. Our hypothesis is that students submitted to the use of digital platforms will present lower levels of self-efficacy, capacity for clinical judgment and retention of knowledge when compared to those who were submitted to the simulation strategy.

Detailed description: The study will be carried out in the simulation laboratory of two Higher Education Institutions, one public and the other private in the city of Brasília, Brazil. The sample will consist of 100 students randomized into an experimental group (n=50) and a control group (n=50). Students enrolled in the undergraduate nursing course, aged 18 years or over, will be eligible; have minimal approval in a discipline related to the content of "Nursing Care for Adult Patients". Students who work actively in the scenario of patient care in critical and risk situations will be excluded; members of the Academic League of Realistic Health Simulation and those with prior training in the health field. It is expected that nursing students, through active and innovative strategies, will be able to obtain and retain greater knowledge, raise levels of self-efficacy and clinical judgment, for their performance in clinical practice.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Aged over 18 years;

Students approved in the discipline related to nursing care for adult and elderly patients.

Exclusion Criteria:

Students who actively work in the scenario of patient care in critical and risk situations; Members of the Realistic Health Simulation League; Students with previous training in the health area (nursing technicians, firefighters, among others) ; Participants who for some reason are absent from one of the project stages.

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Primary outcomes:
measure: Cognitive Performance (Baseline)
timeFrame: Applied before the intervention
measure: Cognitive Performance (Post-Test)
timeFrame: Applied immediately after the intervention
measure: Cognitive Performance (Retention over time)
timeFrame: Applied thirty days after the intervention
measure: Cognitive Performance (Retention over time)
timeFrame: Applied sixty days after the intervention
measure: Clinical Judgment (Baseline)
timeFrame: Applied before the intervention
measure: Clinical Judgment
timeFrame: Applied immediately after the intervention
measure: Clinical Judgment
timeFrame: Applied thirty days after the intervention
measure: Clinical Judgment
timeFrame: Applied sixty days after the intervention
measure: Self-efficacy (Baseline)
timeFrame: Applied before the intervention
measure: Self-efficacy
timeFrame: Applied immediately after the intervention
measure: Self-efficacy
timeFrame: Applied thirty days after the intervention
measure: Self-efficacy
timeFrame: Applied sixty days after the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Student stress (Baseline)
timeFrame: Before the intervention
measure: Student stress
timeFrame: Applied immediately after the intervention
measure: Student stress
timeFrame: Applied thirty days after the intervention
measure: Student stress
timeFrame: Applied sixty days after the intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Brasilia
name: Marcia CS Magro, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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