Enhancing Student Learning by Simulation

As the standard of best practice, care of complicated or difficult patient needs not only knowledge but also including skills and clinical thinking in many aspects.

Simulation is now accepted as the way of teaching for adult learners. This learning method can help students to apply their knowledge, practical skills and non-technical skills. A systematic review study showed that self-directed learning (SDL) in health professions education is associated with moderate improvement in the knowledge domain. SDL also help the learners to improve self-efficacy and the learning outcomes in complicated tasks.In this study, the investigators wanted to evaluate that simulation can enhance student to do SDL in the both pre and post session period.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Pre and Post Simulation Session Self-directed Learning Time
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Simulation class

Detailed Description

After approval from the instution's Ethics Committee, a prospective cohort study was conducted between November 2017 to March 2018. Twenty-five anesthesia residents were participated in this study. Students were noticed about the simulation classes which are emergencies in pediatric anesthesia and complications at one-month prior the day of practice. The list of standard references was given. On the day of study, at the institute's simulation center, students were voluntarily separated into two groups, directed- learner and observer. Post class debriefing sessions were done as routine activities. After the class, the investigator invited the students to be enrolled in this study by using the flyers. Following the consent process, three consecutive questionnaires (day 0 ,30, 90) were sent to the subjects. The data analysis will be done by using R program. The statistically significance in this study was classified at p <0.05.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 22

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Thailand
  • Songkhla, Thailand, 90110
    • Ngamjit Pattaravit

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

- Anesthesia residences who are currently studying in the department of Anesthesia

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Anesthesia residences who are currently studying in the department of Anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refuse to participate

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
anesthesia residence; anesthesia residences who currently study in the department of Anesthesia and voluntarily enrolled into the study	Other: Simulation class; Pediatric anesthesia simulation class for anesthesia residences; Other Names: Simulation session

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pre-class Self-directed learning time	Time spent for studying by the student, themselves, prior the simulation class	1 month before class
Post-class Self-directed learning time	Time spent for studying by the student, themselves, after the simulation class	upto 3 months after class

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge retention	The percentage of knowledge (in pediatric anesthesia topic) retain after class	upto 3 months after class
Level of self-confidence to treat the real patient	Level of self-confidence to treat the real patient after class	upto 3 months after class

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Prince of Songkla University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 9, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 9, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): April 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 30, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 30, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): July 31, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 2, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 31, 2019
• Last Verified: July 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Simulation SDL

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No