Clinical trial NCT05309317: Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections With a Virtual Simulation Game
Official title: The Effect of Virtual Simulation Game on Improving Nursing Students' Knowledge and Skills Regarding Prevention of Catheter- Associated Urinary Tract Infection
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
Nurse's Role
Keywords: Virtual Simulation Game
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
Nursing Education
Nursing Students
Lead sponsor: Gazi University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-04-04
Enrollment: 75
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a virtual simulation game in improving nursing students' knowledge and abilities in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI).

Method: The study was designed as a parallel-group, randomized controlled trial. A pre-test on knowledge and abilities will be administered to all students participating in the study. Following the pre-test evaluation, a training session on "CAUTI Prevention" will be held. The present training approach (lecture method) in the curriculum will be employed in this session. Following the training, the students in the sample group will be randomly divided into the experimental group (students using virtual simulation game application) and the control group (students learning with the existing education method) based on their general weighted grade averages using the stratified randomized approach. The experimental group will play the virtual simulation game for seven days. Knowledge and competence assessments (post-test) of the control and experimental groups will be conducted seven days following the training. The virtual simulation game application will be evaluated by the students in the experimental group after the post-test evaluations. The students' positive, negative, and constructive feedback on the virtual simulation game will be solicited during the assessment. In addition, these students will score in a 5-point Likert type to evaluate the statements about the virtual simulation game.

Hypothesis: H0-1: There is no difference in knowledge about preventing CAUTI between students using the virtual simulation game method and students in the control group.

H1-1: There is a difference in knowledge about preventing CAUTI between students using the virtual simulation game method and students in the control group.

H0-2: There is no difference in CAUTI prevention skills between students using the virtual simulation game method and students in the control group.

H1-2: There is a difference in CAUTI prevention skills between students using the virtual simulation game method and students in the control group.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* To be enrolled in Nursing Profession Courses Practice-II for the first time
* To agree to participate in the study
* To have internet access and smartphone or computer

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not filling in the data collection forms of the research at any stage
* Answering the data collection forms of the research incomplete
* Not having received the first or last skill assessments
* Not attending the training on preventing CAUTI
* Not playing/completing the virtual simulation game

Primary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge Level
timeFrame: Change from students' knowledge levels at seven days
measure: Skill level
timeFrame: Change from students' skill levels at seven days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Opinions of the experimental group about the virtual simulation game
timeFrame: within 1 week after intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ankara
country: Turkey
facility: Gazi University
Study officials:
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