Evaluation of the Effects of Virtual Reality Learning Environment on Nursing Student Non-technical Skills Development

Educational Problems Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of the Effects of Virtual Reality Learning Environment on Nursing Student Non-technical Skills Development: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06277557
• Other study ID #: HSEARS20211229002
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 10, 2022
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: January 2022
• Source: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this waitlist control study is to evaluate the benefits of virtual reality teaching pedagogy to developing non-technical skills in nursing students.

The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

1. What is the relationship between VR training programs and students' situation awareness skills development?

2. What is the relationship between VR training programs and students' communication skills development?

3. What is the relationship between VR training programs and students' satisfaction/self-confidence in learning?

4. What is the relationship between the sense of presence and satisfaction/ self-confidence in learning?

5. How does the student's learning experience after VR training programs?

Participants will attend the Virtual Reality training program. Researchers will compare the use of high-fidelity simulation to see if the non-technical skills were developed.

Description:

The study employed a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest, non-equivalent waitlist control group design. First, the quantitative methods were applied to obtain numerical evidence regarding statistical trends across the experimental and waitlisted control groups.

A pretest-posttest non-equivalent waitlist control group design was employed.

Convenience sampling was adopted to recruit subjects. Participants were recruited from the students who had enrolled in the subject "Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making." They were assigned into two study groups according to the tutorial teaching schedule: the control and the experimental groups. The Control group attended the usual teaching activities: simulation followed by the intervention (VR), whereas the intervention group participated in the VR (intervention) session followed by the simulation session (control).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 180
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: August 31, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 22 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students studying Year 3 of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and enrolled in the subject "Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making"

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students diagnosed with diminished visual acuity were excluded from the study to prevent the diminished visual function from affecting the VR experience.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Educational Problems

Intervention

Other:
• Virtual Reality
Virtual reality learning platform as intervention in this study

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	Timothy LAI	Kowloon

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Situation awareness and communication skills	Use the "Virtual non-technical skills (v-NOTECHS)" scale (Sevidalis et al., 2008) to measure the situation awareness	1) Before the intervention and waitlist control as baseline assessment; 2) immediately after the intervention or control measures as follow up assessment
Primary	Student's self-confidence in learning	Use the "Student satisfaction and self-confidence in Learning" inventory (National League for Nursing, 2005) to mesure the self-confidence in learning	1) Before the intervention and waitlist control as baseline assessment; 2)immediately after the intervention or control measures as follow up assessment
Primary	Participants' sense of presence in this virtual clinical environment	Use the Presence Questionnaire to measure the sense of presence	Immediately after the intervention or control measures