Clinical trial NCT05798910: Comparing the Outcomes of Virtual Reality Based Serious Gaming and Lecture Based Training for Advanced Life Support
Official title: Comparing the Outcomes of Virtual Reality Based Serious Gaming and Lecture Based Training for Advanced Life Support Trainings: Randomized Control Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Keywords: Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Virtual Reality
Serious Game
Lead sponsor: Acibadem University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-04-05
Enrollment: 2
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 22
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The members of the conventional group had to complete pretest at the beginning of the study. Afterwards they had to take part at an interactive classroom based lecture about ALS. The next step was the skills training with task trainers in order to teach them compression skills. Afterwards, the conventional group was divided into three blue code teams consisting of each 5 participants for the simulation session. Two independent instructors evaluated the video recordings in terms of technical and nontechnical skills. The final stage of the study were completing the post-test. The members of VR group had a similar study flow but they had to play with the VR based ALS serious game module instead of the theoretical lecture. A survey about preference of VR based trainings was conducted for the members of the VR group. Mann Whitney U Test and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test were used for statistical analysis of the two groups' performances in this study.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The hypothesis of this study is to reveal whether virtual reality(VR) based Advanced Life Support(ALS) serious game module can replace classroom-based ALS lecture, which is part of existing ALS training protocol in addition to skills training.

Detailed description: The participants consisting of students from Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University Vocational School for Anesthesiology (N=29) were randomly divided into two groups with 15 (Conventional training group) and 14 (VR based training group) participants each. The members of the conventional group had to complete pretest at the beginning of the study. Afterwards they had to take part at an interactive classroom based lecture about ALS. The next step was the skills training with task trainers in order to teach them compression skills. Afterwards, the conventional group was divided into three blue code teams consisting of each 5 participants for the simulation session. Two independent instructors evaluated the video recordings in terms of technical and nontechnical skills. The final stage of the study were completing the post-test. The members of VR group had a similar study flow but they had to play with the VR based ALS serious game module instead of the theoretical lecture during the study flow. A survey about preference of VR based trainings was conducted for the members of the VR group. Mann Whitney U Test and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test were used for statistical analysis of the two groups' performances in this study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Having normal or corrected to normal vision
* No history of visually induced motion sickness

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previously experienced VR-induced motion sickness
* Other medical conditions (Epilepsy, vertigo attacks)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Providing theoretical knowledge about Advanced Life Support Protocol by using VR based serious game module and classroom based theoretical lecture.
timeFrame: 4 hours
measure: Potential of VR based training to replace classroom based lectures for advanced life support trainings.
timeFrame: 4 hours
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
measure: VR preference
timeFrame: 30 minutes
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Acibadem University CASE (Center of Advanced Simulation and Education)
state: Non-US/Canada
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