The Use of Metaverse in Nursing Education (metaverse)

August 7, 2023 updated by: Ayşe Aydınlı, Suleyman Demirel University

The Effect of Metaverse-based Education on Nursing Students' Learning Motivation and Academic Achivement

This study will be conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study in order to determine the effect of nursing process teaching in the metaverse environment on the instructional materials motivation and academic achievement of nursing students. this study will be conducted from March 2023 to April 2023 in the nursing department of a university. The sample consisted of 42 students who volunteered to participate in the research and met the inclusion criteria.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This study will be conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study to determine the effect of nursing process teaching in the metaverse environment on the instructional materials motivation and academic achievement of nursing students. The nursing process course will be conducted in a metaverse environment. A virtual classroom is designed in the metaverse space for the execution of this course. This study will be conducted from March 2023 to April 2023 in the nursing department of a university. The sample consisted of 42 students who volunteered to participate in the research and met the inclusion criteria. Scales and Forms to be used in the Study; Personal Information Form, The Instructional Materials Motivation Scale, and Academic Success Assessment (Quiz). With the simple randomization method, students will be assigned to the experimental and control groups. But students will not know which group is the experimental group.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

42

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
    • Merkez
      • Isparta, Merkez, Turkey, 32200
        • Suleyman Demirel University

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

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Having volunteered to participate in the study
  • Being a first-year nursing student
  • Taking the course nursing process
  • Students with unlimited access to the internet and computer

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Not having volunteered to participate in the study
  • Students who do not taking and continuing in the nursing process course

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: Basic Science
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: İntervention Group
Starting from the week following the pre-test application, online training will continue according to the Metaverse-based for a total of 3 weeks, two hours a week, for the intervention group. At the end of the 3 weeks, the Instructional Materials Motivation Scale and Academic Success Assessment (Quiz) will be re-administered as a post-test.
Other: metaverse- based education

The nursing process course will be conducted in a metaverse environment. A virtual classroom is designed in the metaverse space for the execution of this course.

Starting from the week following the pre-test application, online training will continue according to the Metaverse-based for a total of 3 weeks, two hours a week, for the intervention group. At the end of the 3 weeks, the Instructional Materials Motivation Scale and Academic Success Assessment (Quiz) will be re-administered as a post-test.
No Intervention: Control Group
The subjects were explained by the instructor with the traditional e-teaching method. The subjects will be explained by the instructor with the traditional e-teaching method and as in the intervention group, the lectures were conducted online for two hours a week for 3 weeks. At the end of the 3 week, the post-tests of the Instruvtional Materials Motivation Scale and Academic Success Assessment (Quiz) will be apply in the control group simultaneously with the intervention group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Personal Information Form
Time Frame: one week
This form was prepared by the researchers to determine some sociodemographic characteristics of the participating students. The form consists of 6 questions regarding characteristics of the students' such as age, gender, and graduated high school.
one week
The Instructional Materials Motivation Scale
Time Frame: 3 weeks
Investigators uses the five-point Likert scale: "strongly agree," "agree," "neutral," "disagree," and "strongly disagree". The original IMMS consisted of 36 questions and four dimensions (attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction). The Cronbach's α of the overall questionnaire is 0.96 and the Cronbach's α for each of the sub-dimensions ranges between 0.81 and 0.92. A Turkish version of IMMS was constructed from 24-items.
3 weeks
Academic Success Assessment (Quiz)
Time Frame: 3 weeks
It is a 16 multiple-choice exam created by the researcher to measure the success of the students in the Nursing Process course. This exam lasted 18 minutes. Each question is worth 6.25 points.
3 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Suleyman Demirel University

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Esin Çetinkaya Uslusoy, Suleyman Demirel University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 20, 2023

Primary Completion (Actual)

May 24, 2023

Study Completion (Actual)

May 24, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 10, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 24, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

April 25, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

August 9, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 7, 2023

Last Verified

August 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • SuleymanSDU

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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