The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Nursing Students' Compliance

Education Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Nursing Students' Compliance With Isolation Precautions and Their Knowledge Levels: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05022953
• Other study ID #: KaradenizTU-1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 10, 2021
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: Karadeniz Technical University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study investigated the effect of digital storytelling on nursing students' compliance with isolation precautions and their knowledge levels.This was a pretest-posttest open-label randomized controlled trial. The nursing department of the faculty of health sciences of a university in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. The sample consisted of 109 fourth-year nursing students divided into groups of experimental (n=66) and control (n=43). Data were collected using a demographic characteristics questionnaire, an Isolation Knowledge Test (IKT), a Questionnaire of Students' Opinions on Digital storytelling (QSODS), and the Scale of Compliance with Isolation Precautions (SKIP). The experimental group attended a digital storytelling activity (intervention), while the control group received an education based on the curriculum. The data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test, the Wilcoxon test, the Analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the Spearman correlation test.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 109
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: May 10, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 21 Years to 22 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being voluntary
• Having access to the Internet

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not attending the digital storytelling activity (intervention)
• Not taking the posttest

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Education
• Isolation
• Nursing Students

Intervention

Other:
• Education, dijital storytelling
Digital story

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Sule BIYIK BAYRAM	Trabzon

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Karadeniz Technical University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Distribution of students according to descriptive characteristics.	The 11-item demographic characteristics questionnaire was based on a literature review conducted by the researchers (Özden and Özveren, 2016; Orabi, 2017; Sarier and Kursun, 2020).; The experimental and control group participants had a mean age of 22.57±2.28 and 21.79±0.80, respectively. The experimental group consisted of 56 women and ten men. The control group consisted of 38 women and six men	1 month
Secondary	The difference between the pre, post and follow-up knowledge scores of the control and experimental group students	The Isolation Knowledge Test (IKT) was based on a literature review conducted by the researchers (Erden et al., 2015, Doganay et al., 2013, Karabay et al., 2018). Three experts in nursing fundamentals were consulted to develop the test. The draft test consisted of 40 statements. A pilot study was conducted to check for the intelligibility and relevance of the statements and to calculate item difficulty and item discrimination indices.; was a significant difference between pretest and posttest IKT scores in the experimental group (p=0.01). There was also a significant difference between posttest and follow-up IKT scores in the experimental group (p=0.01). The experimental group had significantly higher follow-up IKT scores than pretest scores.	1 month
Secondary	The difference between the control and experimental group scores according to the total and sub-dimensions of the scale	The Scale of Compliance with Isolation Precautions (SCIP) was developed by Tayran and Ulupinar (2011). The scale consists of 18 items scored on a five-point Likert-type scale ("1 = Strongly disagree," "2 = Disagree," "3 = Neither agree nor disagree," "4 = Agree," "5 = Strongly agree"). The scale has a Cronbach's Alpha of 0.85 (Tayran & Ulupinar, 2011), which was 0.86 (pretest) and 0.78 (posttest) in the present study.; There was no significant difference in pretest SCIP scores between the experimental and control groups. However, there was a significant difference in posttest SCIP scores between them. The experimental group had significantly higher posttest SCIP scores than pretest scores (p=0.00). It had significantly higher follow-up SCIP scores than posttest and pretest scores. There was no significant difference between the control group's pretest, posttest, and follow-up SCIP scores	2 months
Secondary	The following are quotations from the experimental group participants about digital storytelling.	The Questionnaire of Students' Opinions on Digital Storytelling (QSODS) consisted of three open-ended questions on (1) the contribution of digital storytelling to learning, (2) the effect of digital storytelling on students' compliance with isolation precautions and knowledge levels, and (3) students' opinions about digital storytelling.; The following are quotations from the experimental group participants about digital storytelling.; "I realized that I had some gaps in my knowledge of isolation methods and protective measures. It [digital storytelling] helped me fill those gaps." [Student (S). 10].; I think that it's [digital storytelling] fun and instructive. I helped me go over what I already knew and learn new stuff (S.12).; We've had distance learning for a long time, so this storytelling thing helped me feel like I was in it" (S. 54).	2 months