Clinical trial NCT05999305: Using an Escape Room Game in Teaching the Critical Care Nursing Course
Official title: The Effects of Using an Escape Room Game to Improve Senior Nursing Students' Critical Thinking Dispositions and Skills in Vietnam
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Critical Thinking
Keywords: thinking
escape
nursing
student
Lead sponsor: Taipei Medical University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-08-21
Enrollment: 72
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Two teaching methods in the Critical Care Nursing course will be implemented including the conventional teaching combining an escape room game and the conventional class with case-based teaching.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Critical thinking is one of the most desired outcomes of nursing education worldwide. The impact of game-based learning, including the use of an escape room game, on the development of critical thinking ability in nursing students remains uncertain. The main purpose of this study is going to evaluate an escape room game as a learning method in Critical Care Nursing course in improving senior nursing students' critical thinking dispositions and skills. In addition to the main purpose, this study also aims to investigate the effects of incorporating an escape room game into a Critical Care Nursing course in improving senior nursing students' knowledge about critical care nursing, learning motivation, and satisfaction with the learning method. This is a two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial conducted on senior nursing students at Tra Vinh University in Vietnam. Two teaching methods in the Critical Care Nursing course will be applied.

Detailed description: Critical thinking is one of the most desired outcomes of nursing education worldwide. The impact of game-based learning, including the use of an escape room game, on the development of critical thinking ability in nursing students remains uncertain.

The main purpose of this study is going to evaluate an escape room game as learning method in Critical Care Nursing course in improving senior nursing students' critical thinking dispositions and skills. In addition to the main purpose, this study also aims to investigate the effects of incorporating an escape room game into a Critical Care Nursing course in improving senior nursing students' knowledge about critical care nursing, learning motivation, and satisfaction with the learning method.

This a two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial conducted on senior nursing students at Tra Vinh University in Vietnam. Two teaching methods in the Critical Care Nursing course will be applied. A conventional class with an escape room game will be implemented for the intervention group while a conventional class with case-based learning will be the teaching method for the comparison group.

The study will be a repeated-measurement design with three time points. Mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage, t-test, and chi-squared test will be conducted. Generalized Estimating Equations will be used to analyze the intervention effect and time effect on scores of critical thinking dispositions and skills, knowledge of critical care nursing, and learning motivation over three-time points. Generalized Estimating Equations will also allow us to explore the interaction between group and time, as well as control for any potential covariates. The intention of this study is that its findings will offer valuable insights for faculty members to consider incorporating escape room games into their teaching methodologies.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Nursing students who are in their senior year in the bachelor program and take Critical Care Nursing which is a required course.

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: The critical thinking skills of nursing students
timeFrame: The measurement will be repeated in three time points including the pre-test, immediately after the completion of the teaching course, and one month after the completion of the teaching course
measure: The critical thinking disposition of nursing students
timeFrame: The measurement will be repeated in three time points including the pre-test, immediately after the completion of the teaching course, and one month after the completion of the teaching course
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The knowledge about Critical Care Nursing of nursing students
timeFrame: The measurement will be repeated in three time points including the pre-test, immediately after the completion of the teaching course, and one month after the completion of the teaching course
measure: Student's learning motivation
timeFrame: The measurement will be repeated in three time points including the pre-test, immediately after the completion of the teaching course, and one month after the completion of the teaching course
measure: Students' satisfaction with the course.
timeFrame: The measurement will be conducted immediately after the completion of the teaching course.
measure: The Escape Room Perception of nursing students
timeFrame: The measurement will be conducted immediately after the completion of the teaching course.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tra Vinh
country: Vietnam
facility: Nursing Department of Tra Vinh University
Study officials:
affiliation: School of Nursing, College of Nursing of Taipei Medical University
name: Yeu-Hui Chuang, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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