The Effect of Virtual Reality on Affective Awareness, Empathy, Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Students

Summary

This study was planned to be conducted in a randomized controlled experimental design to determine the effect of virtual reality-based learning tool on nursing students' affective awareness, empathy, self-confidence and anxiety levels in clinical decision making. The population of the study will consist of students taking the Health Assessment course at Kırıkkale University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing. The data of the study will be collected by using descriptive characteristics form, "Affective Awareness Scale for Teaching", "Affective and Cognitive Empathy Scale", "Clinical Decision Making Self-Confidence and Anxiety Scale in Nursing". Students will be divided into virtual reality group, simulated patient group and control (traditional education) group using their academic grade point average. The subject of Health Assessment Thorax and Lung assessment will be taught to the control group with traditional education, to the virtual reality group with a virtual reality-based thorax and lung physical examination learning tool, and to the simulated patient group by performing a physical examination of the thorax and lung. Before the application, at the end of the application and at the end of clinical practices, the Affective Awareness Scale for Teaching", 'Affective and Cognitive Empathy Scale', Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Self-Confidence and Anxiety Scale" will be collected. Frequency distributions, descriptive statistics, chi-square, one-way analysis of variance (OneWay ANOVA), Levene's test, "multiple comparison test" (Bonferroni, Tamhane's T2) and repeated measures analysis of variance will be used to evaluate the data. 0.05 will be used as the significance level and it will be stated that there is a significant difference in case of p\<0.05 and there is no significant difference in case of p\>0.05.

Conditions

• Virtual Reality
• Physical Examination of the Thorax and Lungs
• Emotional Awareness
• Empathy
• Self-confidence in Clinical Decision Making and Anxiety

Interventions

OTHER

Virtual reality

Thoracic lung physical examination will be studied using a virtual reality-based thoracic and lung physical examination learning tool.

OTHER

simulated patient

Thoracic lung physical examination will be studied using a simulated patient.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Esra DOĞAN YILMAZ, PhD

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Emel GÜLNAR, Assoc. Prof. · Kırıkkale University

• Aslı YILMAZ, MSc · Gazi University graduate student

• Esra DOĞAN YILMAZ, Asst. Prof. · Kırıkkale University

• Kamile KIRCA, Asst. Prof. · Kırıkkale University

• Şule BIYIK BAYRAM, Assoc. Prof. · Black Sea Technical University

• Nurcan ÇALIŞKAN, Prof. Dr. · Gazi University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-12-11

Primary Completion

2024-12-17

Completion

2025-01-17

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations