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Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Virtual Reality in the Nursing Curriculum

NCT06353763 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 127

Last updated 2024-04-09

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Summary

The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of an immersive virtual reality learning programme for nursing students, based on virtual glasses, in acquiring the competence (knowledge, skills and attitudes) to care for patients with pressure ulcers, and to compare it with the traditional teaching method.

The design was an exploratory randomised controlled trial. The variables used to measure effectiveness were competence and its attributes: knowledge assessment by a multiple-choice test (Pressure Ulcer Knowledge Assessment Tool, Pukat 2.0 instrument), skill performance by direct observation of procedural skills (simulated cases with standardised patients) and satisfaction and usability assessment (Usefulness, Satisfaction and Ease of Use Questionnaire).

Conditions

  • Pressure Ulcer

Interventions

OTHER

Immersive virtual reality learning program

The immersive virtual reality learning programme was developed by the research team and two nurse experts in chronic wounds, who designed the learning content and script and created six pressure ulcer (PU) cases. Based on the standards of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP), the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) and the National Group for the Study and Advice on Pressure Ulcers and Chronic Wounds (GNEAUPP), prevention of healthy skin (case one), management of grade I, II, III and IV PUs (cases two to five) and an infected PU (debridement intervention) were developed. For each case, there was a formative version with immediate feedback and an evaluative one. Before starting the training, the students learned how to use the virtual reality glasses, buttons and joystick by playing a game that trained different dexterity movements. The computer assembly IVR application was developed using Unity 3D and the virtual objects were designed in 3Ds Max.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Virginia Las Rosas-Salas · University of Navarra

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-24
Primary Completion
2022-05-30
Completion
2022-06-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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