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NCT Number: NCT06277557

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Educational Problems

Age range

18 year–22 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Timothy LAI

Kowloon, Hong Kong

About this study

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).

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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.

Treatment and study plan

Virtual Reality

Other

Virtual reality learning platform as intervention in this study

Primary outcomes

  1. Situation awareness and communication skills

    Time frame: 1) Before the intervention and waitlist control as baseline assessment; 2) immediately after the intervention or control measures as follow up assessment

    Use the "Virtual non-technical skills (v-NOTECHS)" scale (Sevidalis et al., 2008) to measure the situation awareness

  2. Student's self-confidence in learning

    Time frame: 1) Before the intervention and waitlist control as baseline assessment; 2)immediately after the intervention or control measures as follow up assessment

    Use the "Student satisfaction and self-confidence in Learning" inventory (National League for Nursing, 2005) to mesure the self-confidence in learning

  3. Participants' sense of presence in this virtual clinical environment

    Time frame: Immediately after the intervention or control measures

    Use the Presence Questionnaire to measure the sense of presence

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Feb 26, 2024
Registry last updated
Feb 26, 2024

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