The Use of Metaverse in Nursing Education

Nursing Student Clinical Trial

— metaverse  

Official title:

The Effect of Metaverse-based Education on Nursing Students' Learning Motivation and Academic Achivement

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05829395
• Other study ID #: SuleymanSDU
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 20, 2023
• Est. completion date: May 24, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: August 2023
• Source: Suleyman Demirel University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will be conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study in order to determine the effect of nursing process teaching in the metaverse environment on the instructional materials motivation and academic achievement of nursing students. this study will be conducted from March 2023 to April 2023 in the nursing department of a university. The sample consisted of 42 students who volunteered to participate in the research and met the inclusion criteria.

Description:

This study will be conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study to determine the effect of nursing process teaching in the metaverse environment on the instructional materials motivation and academic achievement of nursing students. The nursing process course will be conducted in a metaverse environment. A virtual classroom is designed in the metaverse space for the execution of this course. This study will be conducted from March 2023 to April 2023 in the nursing department of a university. The sample consisted of 42 students who volunteered to participate in the research and met the inclusion criteria. Scales and Forms to be used in the Study; Personal Information Form, The Instructional Materials Motivation Scale, and Academic Success Assessment (Quiz). With the simple randomization method, students will be assigned to the experimental and control groups. But students will not know which group is the experimental group.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: May 24, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: May 24, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having volunteered to participate in the study
• Being a first-year nursing student
• Taking the course nursing process
• Students with unlimited access to the internet and computer

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not having volunteered to participate in the study
• Students who do not taking and continuing in the nursing process course

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Nursing Student

Intervention

Other:
• metaverse- based education
The nursing process course will be conducted in a metaverse environment. A virtual classroom is designed in the metaverse space for the execution of this course. Starting from the week following the pre-test application, online training will continue according to the Metaverse-based for a total of 3 weeks, two hours a week, for the intervention group. At the end of the 3 weeks, the Instructional Materials Motivation Scale and Academic Success Assessment (Quiz) will be re-administered as a post-test.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Suleyman Demirel University	Isparta	Merkez

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Suleyman Demirel University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

References & Publications (4)

Ahuja AS, Polascik BW, Doddapaneni D, Byrnes ES, Sridhar J. The Digital Metaverse: Applications in Artificial Intelligence, Medical Education, and Integrative Health. Integr Med Res. 2023 Mar;12(1):100917. doi: 10.1016/j.imr.2022.100917. Epub 2022 Dec 22. No abstract available. — View Citation

Ali S, Abdullah, Armand TPT, Athar A, Hussain A, Ali M, Yaseen M, Joo MI, Kim HC. Metaverse in Healthcare Integrated with Explainable AI and Blockchain: Enabling Immersiveness, Ensuring Trust, and Providing Patient Data Security. Sensors (Basel). 2023 Jan — View Citation

Bhugaonkar K, Bhugaonkar R, Masne N. The Trend of Metaverse and Augmented & Virtual Reality Extending to the Healthcare System. Cureus. 2022 Sep 12;14(9):e29071. doi: 10.7759/cureus.29071. eCollection 2022 Sep. — View Citation

Zhao J, Lu Y, Zhou F, Mao R, Fei F. Systematic Bibliometric Analysis of Research Hotspots and Trends on the Application of Virtual Reality in Nursing. Front Public Health. 2022 May 19;10:906715. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.906715. eCollection 2022. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Personal Information Form	This form was prepared by the researchers to determine some sociodemographic characteristics of the participating students. The form consists of 6 questions regarding characteristics of the students' such as age, gender, and graduated high school.	one week
Primary	The Instructional Materials Motivation Scale	Investigators uses the five-point Likert scale: "strongly agree," "agree," "neutral," "disagree," and "strongly disagree". The original IMMS consisted of 36 questions and four dimensions (attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction). The Cronbach's a of the overall questionnaire is 0.96 and the Cronbach's a for each of the sub-dimensions ranges between 0.81 and 0.92. A Turkish version of IMMS was constructed from 24-items.	3 weeks
Primary	Academic Success Assessment (Quiz)	It is a 16 multiple-choice exam created by the researcher to measure the success of the students in the Nursing Process course. This exam lasted 18 minutes. Each question is worth 6.25 points.	3 weeks