Teaching the Social Determinants of Health to Nursing Students With Simulation

Teaching the Social Determinants of Health to Nursing Students With Culturally Diverse Simulation: A Quasi Experimental Trial

The goal of this intervention study is to compare two different simulation modalities (standardized patient and manikin-based) in nursing student education. The main aim is to determine the effect of new scenarios on cultural awareness levels in two different types of simulation modalities and to determine the effect of new scenarios on social determinants of health knowledge levels in two different types of simulation modalities.

Participants will assign to two groups and will attend simulation sessions.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Nurse's Role; Simulation of Physical Illness
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Standardized patient simulation; Behavioral: Manikin-based simulation

Detailed Description

The simulation session will contain prebriefing, simulation, and debriefing. The participants will be assigned to the simulation session.

• The first group will be the standardized patient group. They will ask to fill out the Cultural Awareness Scale and social determinants of health knowledge. Then, they will attend prebriefing, standardized patient simulation, and debriefing.
• The second group will be the manikin-based group. They will ask to fill out the Cultural Awareness Scale and social determinants of health knowledge. Then, they will attend prebriefing, manikin-based simulation, and debriefing.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 54
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02125
      • University of Massachusetts Boston

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• being enrolled in Nursing in the Community course
• accepting to be a participant
• accepting to be recorded

Exclusion Criteria:

• not attending at least one of the prebriefing, simulation, or debriefing sessions

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Standardized patient group; The standardized patient simulation participants will receive a simulation with standardized patients on how to identify social determinants of health in an individual	Behavioral: Standardized patient simulation; The standardized patient simulation participants will receive a simulation with standardized patients on how to identify social determinants of health in an individual
Experimental: Manikin-based group; The manikin-based simulation participants will receive a simulation with manikins on how to identify social determinants of health in an individual	Behavioral: Manikin-based simulation; The manikin-based simulation participants will receive a simulation with manikins on how to identify social determinants of health in an individual

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from baseline cultural awareness level on the 36 questions Cultural Awareness Scale	The Cultural Awareness Scale is a validated, reliable, and self-reported instrument assessing cultural awareness levels. Each statement is graded from 1=Strongly Disagree to 7=Strongly Agree. While lower scores indicate less cultural awareness, higher scores indicate greater cultural awareness (minimum = 36, maximum = 252).	Three hour
Change from baseline social determinants knowledge on the 10 questions Social Determinants of Health Survey	Social Determinants of Health Survey is a 10-question multiple-choice survey created by researchers by searching the literature. The number of responses to the answer choice is determined. The lower scores indicate fewer social determinants of health knowledge and higher scores indicate greater social determinants of health knowledge (minimum = 0, maximum = 10).	Three hour

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Semiha Asli Bozkurt, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 2, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 24, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): June 30, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 22, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 6, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): January 13, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): January 26, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 25, 2024
• Last Verified: January 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Simulation-based training; Nursing student; Standardized patient simulation; Manikin-based simulation
• Other Study ID Numbers: BOZKURT-Int-001

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