Health Trials

Effectiveness of Serious Games on Nursing Students' Clinical Reasoning

ConditionClinical Reasoning
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorDo Thi Kim Chi

About this trial

This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of serious game-based learning compared with conventional learning in improving clinical reasoning among nursing students in Vietnam. Additionally, the study will assess students' self-confidence in pediatric nursing care, intrinsic motivation, and satisfaction with the learning experience. A minimum of 104 second-year nursing students will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group (serious game-based learning) or the control group (conventional learning). Both groups will receive six teaching sessions based on the content of the Pediatric Care Nursing curriculum, conducted outside the formal curriculum, with each session lasting approximately three hours. Outcomes will be measured at multiple time points, while learning satisfaction will be assessed immediately after completion of the intervention.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Second-year undergraduate nursing students.

Students who have not previously taken the Pediatric Care Nursing course

Disqualifiers

Students who do not agree to participate in the study.

Students who are repeating the Pediatric Care Nursing course.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Serious game - based learning

    Behavioral

    Participants in the intervention group will receive six weekly serious game-based learning sessions. Each 3-hour session will include a lecture, serious game play, group presentation, discussion, and reflection.

  • Conventional teaching

    Behavioral

    Participants in the control group will receive traditional teaching covering the same topics as the intervention group. The intervention will be delivered in one 3-hour session per week for up to 6 weeks. Each session will consist primarily of instructor-led lectures using presentation slides. Clinical scenarios will be presented by the instructor through lecture slides without small-group discussion. Question-and-answer activities will be conducted after the lecture.

Treatment groups

104 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: intervention GroupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Control GroupActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Clinical reasoning

This study will use the Vietnamese version of the 16-item Clinical Reasoning Scale (CRS) to measure nursing students' clinical reasoning ability. Each item is rated on a five-point Likert scale. Total scores range from 16 to 80, with higher scores indicating greater clinical reasoning ability.

Time frame
Baseline, immediately after intervention, and follow up at one-month post intervention.
2

clinical reasoning

This study will use the Clinical Reasoning Performance Rubric (CRPR) to provide an objective assessment of nursing students' clinical reasoning. The rubric consists of eight domains, each rated from 0 to 3. Total scores range from 0 to 24, with higher scores indicating better clinical reasoning.

Time frame
Baseline, immediately after intervention, and follow-up at one-month post-intervention.

Secondary outcomes

1

Confidence

This study will use the Vietnamese version of the five-item Confidence Scale (C-Scale), adapted for pediatric nursing care, to measure nursing students' confidence in pediatric nursing care. Each item is rated on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5. Total scores range from 5 to 25, with higher scores indicating greater confidence in pediatric nursing care.

Time frame
Baseline, immediately after intervention, and follow-up at one-month post-intervention.
2

motivation

This study will use four items from the Enjoyment subscale of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) to measure nursing students' intrinsic motivation. Each item is rated on a five-point Likert scale. Total scores range from 4 to 20, with higher scores indicating greater intrinsic motivation.

Time frame
Baseline, immediately after intervention, and follow-up at one-month post-intervention.
3

Student Satisfaction

This study will use the 12-item Student Satisfaction Questionnaire to assess nursing students' satisfaction with the assigned learning methods. Each item is rated on a five-point Likert scale . Total scores range from 12 to 60, with higher scores indicating greater satisfaction with the learning methods.

Time frame
Immediately after intervention

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Do Thi Kim Chi

Lead sponsor

Taipei Medical University

Sponsor institution

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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