The Effect of Crossword and Word Search Puzzles on Nursing Students' Parenteral Medication Administration Knowledge

The Effect of Crossword and Word Search Puzzles on Nursing Students' Parenteral Medication Administration Knowledge: A Randomized Controlled Study

This study was conducted in a pretest-posttest parallel-group, randomized controlled design.The population of the study consisted of students (n=220) enrolled in the Fundamentals of Nursing course at the Faculty of Nursing of a public university in the 2022-2023 academic year.According to the exclusion criteria, 56 students were excluded from the study. One hundred sixty-four students who met the inclusion criteria were randomized to the intervention I (n = 82) and control groups (n = 82) by stratified block randomization after the completion of baseline measures. The study was completed with 164 students. The theoretical lecture was carried out by a researcher who was an expert faculty member in Fundamentals of Nursing. All students completed the pretest after attending the theoretical lecture. In the laboratory practice after the theoretical lecture, all students were divided into small groups and practiced parenteral medication administration skills one-to-one under the guidance of the instructor. Students in the intervention group received hard copies of the puzzles at the end of the laboratory practice. All students completed the posttest again at the end of the laboratory practice. Students were supervised during the tests and were not allowed to consult any books, the internet, or any other source of information.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Nursing Education; Medicatioon Administration Knowledge; Puzzle
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Crossword and word search puzzles

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 220
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Yenimahalle
    • Ankara, Yenimahalle, Turkey, 06500
      • Gülcan Eyüboğlu

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

(1) Register for the Fundamentals of Nursing course for the first time.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. not communicate in Turkish
2. graduate from any health-related university in the past.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention Group	Other: Crossword and word search puzzles; Students in the intervention group received hard copies of the puzzles at the end of the laboratory practice.
No Intervention: Control Group

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Medication Administration Knowledge Questionnaire	Higher scores mean a better knowledge about parenteral medication administration (minimum score is 0, maximum score is 100)	Through study completion, an average of 2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Evrim Eyikara

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 26, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 15, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): May 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 16, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 23, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): October 27, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 7, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 2, 2023
• Last Verified: November 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2023-253

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