Video Gaming Improves Robotic Surgery Simulator Success

Video Gaming Improves Robotic Surgery Simulator Success: A Multi-clinic Cross-sectional Study on Robotic Skills

Investigators aimed to investigate the effects of video game habits, duration of experience, and training in different surgical clinics on the success of robotic surgery simulators.

In this prospective, observational, comparative, and multi-clinic study, all participants played the Temple Run and Piano Tiles 2™ mobile games for one month after responding to a questionnaire including their sociodemographic characteristics, surgical experience, and past and current video game experience. At the end of the study period, participants experienced four different robotic surgery simulator tasks (Camera Targeting 1, Energy Switching 1, Ring & Rail 2, Vertical Defect Suturing) in the da Vinci® Skills Simulator™. Additionally, sociodemographic data were statistically analyzed with mobile game scores, and 13 different performance scores were obtained from the simulator.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Robotic Surgery; Simulator
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 60

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • İzmir, Turkey, 35100
    • Ege University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 24 years to 39 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Residents from general surgery, urology, and pediatric surgery clinics were included in the study. Sixty of the 64 total participants completed all the processes. Four participants were excluded from the study.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• To be a physician trained in Surgery in the Department of General Surgery. Pediatric Surgery and Urology.
• To be an assistant and specialist of the departments with robotic surgery experience.
• To be acquainted with laparoscopic surgery.
• Having played video games.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participation in our study is on a voluntary basis and we have no criteria other than physicians who want to leave the study voluntarily.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

Number of groups / cohorts

3

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
General surgery residents; 39 participants	Other: Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success; A questionnaire was administered to all participants, asking about their demographic information, surgical experience, hobbies, and previous video game playing experiences. After the questionnaire, the participants were asked to play the Temple Run (Imangi Studios, NC, USA) and Piano Tiles 2™ mobile games for one month. At the end of the period, with the da Vinci® Skills Simulator™ for one hour, all participants performed four different robotic surgery simulator tasks (Camera Targeting 1, Energy Switching 1, Ring & Rail 2, Vertical Defect Suturing) that require the ability to apply basic robotic surgery rules and measure surgical skills.
Urology residents; 14 participants	Other: Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success; A questionnaire was administered to all participants, asking about their demographic information, surgical experience, hobbies, and previous video game playing experiences. After the questionnaire, the participants were asked to play the Temple Run (Imangi Studios, NC, USA) and Piano Tiles 2™ mobile games for one month. At the end of the period, with the da Vinci® Skills Simulator™ for one hour, all participants performed four different robotic surgery simulator tasks (Camera Targeting 1, Energy Switching 1, Ring & Rail 2, Vertical Defect Suturing) that require the ability to apply basic robotic surgery rules and measure surgical skills.
Pediatric surgery residents; 7 participants	Other: Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success; A questionnaire was administered to all participants, asking about their demographic information, surgical experience, hobbies, and previous video game playing experiences. After the questionnaire, the participants were asked to play the Temple Run (Imangi Studios, NC, USA) and Piano Tiles 2™ mobile games for one month. At the end of the period, with the da Vinci® Skills Simulator™ for one hour, all participants performed four different robotic surgery simulator tasks (Camera Targeting 1, Energy Switching 1, Ring & Rail 2, Vertical Defect Suturing) that require the ability to apply basic robotic surgery rules and measure surgical skills.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Robotic surgery simulator score of participants by video game experience	The effect of both previous and current video game on simulator results	2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Determination of robotic surgery success among clinics according to simulator score	2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ege University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 30, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): June 15, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 15, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 18, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): August 22, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 24, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 20, 2022
• Last Verified: August 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: surgical education; robotic surgery; simulation-based learning; video game experience
• Other Study ID Numbers: 21-3T/17

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No
• IPD Plan Description: All data of participants will be kept confidential.

Drug and device information, study documents

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