Flipped Classroom in Episiotomy Education

April 3, 2023 updated by: yasemin hamlacı başkaya, Sakarya University

The Effect of Flipped Classroom Design on Episiotomy Teaching on Knowledge, Skills and Anxiety Levels of Midwifery Students: A Randomized Controlled Study

This study aims to evaluate the effect of using inverted classroom design on students' knowledge, skills and anxiety levels in teaching episiotomy application and repair, one of the interventions frequently used in labour.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The flipped classroom is a new and popular teaching model in which lessons traditionally conducted in the classroom become homework or homework responsibilities and lessons that would normally constitute homework become classroom lessons. In the flipped classroom, students become responsible for their own learning process and need to manage their own pace of learning, while the teacher helps the students instead of simply imparting information. While flipped classrooms are seen to offer many positive educational outcomes, they also have some limitations. In the flipped model, student learning achievement and satisfaction can be increased and it is considered to be more economical than traditional teaching. The literature shows that the flipped teaching model requires both opportunities and challenges. Within the scope of the study, in order to evaluate the effect of using inverted classroom design in teaching episiotomy application and repair on students' knowledge, skills and anxiety levels, midwifery students taking normal birth and postnatal period courses will be divided into two groups, one group in the form of traditional teaching and one group in the form of inverted classroom design during the application of episiotomy teaching. The study data will be collected through Student Identification Form, State Anxiety Inventory, Episiotomy Information Form and Episiotomy Skill Evaluation Form. The data obtained from the study will be analysed with SPSS programme. It is thought that the study will make an important contribution to the literature in terms of evaluating the effect of the inverted classroom on teaching episiotomy repair.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

86

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Turkey
      • Sakarya, Turkey, 54050
        • Sakarya University- Faculty of Health Sciences

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Registered in the midwifery department,
  2. Participating in the Normal Birth and Postpartum Period course during the study period and
  3. Those who agreed to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Those who do not attend the Normal Birth and Postpartum Term course twice or more during the semester,
  2. Those who have taken this course before and have experience in episiotomy skills.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Other
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental group
The trainer shared the training presentation, visuals and videos (his own video explaining the episiotomy application and repair and other videos shared with the traditional group) prepared on the subject of episiotomy with the students through the course information system, one week before the episiotomy application. It was accepted that the students came to the episiotomy application with the theoretical training. Afterwards, episiotomy was applied.
Other: flipped classroom
Educational presentation, visuals and videos (her own video explaining episiotomy application and repair and other videos shared with the traditional group) prepared for the students on episiotomy were shared one week before the episiotomy application.
No Intervention: No Intervention: Control group (Traditional education)
The students were given theoretical training. This training was implemented in two sessions, one lasting 50 minutes and the other 30 minutes. The content of the training; It included the definition of episiotomy, indications, risks, episiotomy application steps, materials used, episiotomy types, episiotomy repair and repair steps, suturing techniques and types, episiotomy care. Slide shows, related images and video presentations (3 videos showing episiotomy application and repair steps and suturing techniques) were used as teaching materials. A question-answer session was held at the end of the training. In addition, teaching materials were shared with the students after the application. Immediately after the training, episiotomy was applied.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
State Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
Time Frame: 1 hours
The State Anxiety Inventory consists of 20 items and requires the individual to answer how he or she feels at a certain moment and under certain conditions, taking into account his feelings about the situation he is in. The scale is likert type and is a four-degree scale ranging from "Not at all" to "Totally". The maximum score that can be obtained from the scale is 80, and the minimum score is 20. High scores indicate high anxiety, low scores indicate low anxiety.
1 hours
Episiotomy Information Form
Time Frame: 1 hours
It consists of 25 propositions (questions) to measure the knowledge level of students about episiotomy. 13 of these propositions were prepared as true propositions and 12 as false propositions, and the participants were asked to answer as 'agree', 'disagree' and 'no idea'. Correct answers given by the students to the propositions were evaluated as 1 point, wrong and I have no idea answers as 0 points. The lowest score that can be obtained from the information form is 0, and the highest score is 25.
1 hours
Episiotomy Skill Assessment Form
Time Frame: 1 hours
Form; It consists of 15 items, including the steps of holding the porthole correctly, knotting the sutures properly, repairing the superficial perineal muscles with one-by-one sutures, and application and repair of episiotomy. Each item in the form was scored as "3" if the student fulfilled the procedure in the item, "2" if partially fulfilled, and "1" if not. The total score that can be obtained from the form is minimum 15 and maximum 75.
1 hours

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Sakarya University

Investigators

  • Study Director: Yasemin Hamlacı Başkaya, Sakarya University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

December 15, 2022

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 22, 2022

Study Completion (Actual)

January 5, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 7, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 17, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

March 20, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 5, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 3, 2023

Last Verified

April 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 01032023

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

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