Effectiveness of Delirium Simulation Education of Nurses in Intensive Care Unit

Effectiveness of Delirium Simulation Education on the Self-efficacy and Critical Thinking Skill of Nurses in Intensive Care Unit- Randomized Clinical Trial

Delirium is a common symptom in the intensive care unit, which greatly affects the prognosis of critically ill patients and increases medical costs. Although many studies have implemented preventive measures, they have not been able to significantly improve the prevalence of delirium, because many medical measures devises in the intensive care unit are still necessary for patients. Therefore, early detection of patients with delirium symptoms, risk factors, and immediate Delirium management is important. Nurses are the first line of clinically important roles in assessing delirium symptoms. So, design a delirium simulation education for nurses is important.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Self Efficacy; Nursing Caries; Simulation of Physical Illness; Intensive Care Unit Delirium
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: education strategy

Detailed Description

Through literature review, the investigators found that research on delirium in the intensive care unit simulated education interventions are insufficient, and longitudinal studies to explore how long the effect can be maintained or delirium assessment and delirium management are designed dependent on theory are lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of delirium simulation education on delirium knowledge, delirium critical thinking, delirium care self-efficacy and satisfaction among nurses in intensive care units, and to explore the influencing factors.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 120
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 20 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Nurses who have worked in the intensive care unit for more than 3 months,
2. No physical or mental illness or recent major family events,
3. Never received delirium simulation training.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Those who are not working in the intensive care unit for less than 3 months,
2. Those who have recently suffered from physical and mental illness or a major family event recently,
3. Those who have received delirium simulation training,
4. Those who are currently working as nursing supervisors.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental(simulation education group); The experimental group (simulation teaching group), the content of simulation teaching is based on the simulation model, and includes five important elements: Instructor, student, educational practice, simulation situation design and characteristics, and result that design covering the four stages of learning, concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and action experience, and design lesson plans, which include delirium assessment and delirium risk factor detection. Delirium prevention and management (PADIS guidelines). The main objectives of the teaching plan design of the experimental group are: to be able to confirm delirium by assessment of the Delirium Assessment Scale; to confirm the risk factors by the history taking; to propose treatment and measures according to the assessment results. Secondary goals: Be able to perform handovers.	Other: education strategy; The educational course of the experimental group will last for 6 weeks, including classroom teaching and simulated situational teaching. The classroom teaching will be divided into 3 times, a course of about 2 hours at a time; after the class, simulated situational teaching is also arranged for 4 hours at a time/ Caring for many patients with delirium, and performing related research. The simulated scenario lesson plan plans to design 3 major themes (delirium assessment, delirium risk factors, delirium prevention, each major theme will have 2 scenarios, each The simulation teaching exercise starts with pre-briefing, and after the end, debriefing reflection and discussion with the students.
No Intervention: Control(traditional group); Nurses in the control group did not receive simulated situational teaching, but received classroom teaching 3 times (once every other week) (delirium assessment, risk factor assessment; PADIS treatment), each session of about 2 hours. In order to avoid inconsistent teaching content, the control group and the experimental group are not to be together in classroom.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Effectiveness change of delirium care knowledge after simulation teaching	Effectiveness of participants with simulation teaching as assessed by delirium knowledge questioner, change from baseline in knowledge scores on delirium knowledge questioner at 3,6,12 months	change from baseline in delirium knowledge and 3, 6, 12 months after intervention
Effectiveness change of delirium care self-efficacy after simulation teaching	Effectiveness of participants with simulation teaching as assessed by delirium care self-efficacy questioner, change from baseline in self-efficacy scores on delirium care self-efficacy questioner at 3,6,12 months	change from baseline in delirium care self-efficacy and 3, 6, 12 months after intervention
Effectiveness change of delirium critical thinking skills after simulation teaching	Effectiveness of participants with simulation teaching as assessed by delirium critical thinking skills questioner, change from baseline in critical thinking skills scores on delirium critical thinking skills questioner at 3,6,12 months	change from baseline in delirium critical thinking skills and 3, 6, 12 months after intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): August 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): July 31, 2023
• Study Completion (Anticipated): July 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 16, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 9, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): April 19, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 20, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 19, 2022
• Last Verified: July 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: intensive care unit,nurses,delirium,simulation
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Confusion; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurocognitive Disorders; Delirium
• Other Study ID Numbers: MOST109-2314-B-182-009-MY3

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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