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The Effect of Digital Games on Ethical Sensitivity and Decision Making in Nursing Students

NCT07235241 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-11-19

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Summary

The study was planned using a randomised controlled experimental design to determine the effectiveness of digital game-based teaching in the development of ethical sensitivity and ethical decision-making processes among nursing students.

Conditions

  • Decision Making
  • Ethics

Interventions

OTHER

Digital game

Digital Game: The developed digital game aims to enhance medical students' ethical awareness and decision-making skills. The digital game first provides students with reminders about ethical principles. The game covers a four-week process, focusing on a specific ethical principle each week. Each weekly module presents two cases supported by animated visuals written by the researcher, reviewed by experts, and created by the software company. After watching and reading the cases, students answer related questions. The modules and principles covered are as follows: Week 1 (Do No Harm/Beneficence): Cases related to treatment refusal and palliative care compliance. Week 2 (Autonomy/Respect): Cases related to organ donation decisions and chemotherapy refusal. Week 3 (Justice/Equity): Cases related to resource (air mattress) allocation and patient prioritisation. Week 4 (Confidentiality/Privacy): Cases related to HIV diagnosis confidentiality and psychiatric service confidentiality.

OTHER

In-class group work

Face-to-face case analysis will be conducted over 4 weeks. These sessions are scheduled outside the course programme, once a week for 40 minutes. A total of 4 cases, each relating to an ethical principle, will be given to students in printed form at the beginning of each session, and they will be asked to analyse them simultaneously. Before the exercises, students will be explained how to analyse the cases.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istanbul Medeniyet University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Furkan Keles, PhD Student · Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa

  • Funda Büyükyılmaz, Prof. Dr. · Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-03-31
Primary Completion
2026-04-30
Completion
2026-06-30

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