Clinical trial NCT05604807: Dementia-friendly Community Training Using Virtual Reality Among College Nursing Students
Official title: From the Classroom to the Rural Community: Engaging Nursing College Students to Create a Dementia-friendly Community Using Virtual Reality and World café Teaching Strategies
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dementia
Lead sponsor: Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-11-03
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 19
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: two-group randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a dementia course using virtual reality, world café teaching method and community practice on knowledge of dementia and dementia-friendly community, attitude toward dementia, and empathy toward people with dementia among nursing college students.

Detailed description: This two-group randomised controlled trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a dementia course using virtual reality on knowledge of dementia and dementia-friendly community, attitude toward dementia, and empathy toward people with dementia among nursing college students.

The interventional group will receive the dementia course consists of dementia virtual reality activity, intergenerational learning, world café teaching method and community practice.

The control group will only receive the dementia course with intergenerational learning, world café teaching method and community practice but no dementia virtual reality activity.

Both groups will be assessed for their dementia knowledge, attitudes, empathy and knowledge of dementia-friendly community at baseline, week 8, and week 18.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* college nursing students with age ranged from 19 to 40 years,
* Taiwanese nationality,
* Sophomore and above
* provide informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

college nursing students who do not meet the inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale (DKAS)
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale (DKAS)
timeFrame: week 8
measure: Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale (DKAS)
timeFrame: week 18
measure: Approaches to Dementia Questionnaire (ADQ)
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Approaches to Dementia Questionnaire (ADQ)
timeFrame: week 8
measure: Approaches to Dementia Questionnaire (ADQ)
timeFrame: week 18
measure: Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE)
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE)
timeFrame: week 8
measure: Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE)
timeFrame: week 18
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Dementia-friendly community questionnaire
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Dementia-friendly community questionnaire
timeFrame: week 8
measure: Dementia-friendly community questionnaire
timeFrame: week 18
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hualien City
country: Taiwan
facility: Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology
Study officials:
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