The Effect of an Escape Room Simulation on Post-mortem Care Training

The Effect of an Escape Room Simulation on Post-mortem Care Training for Nursing Students: a Randomised Controlled Trial

Simulated escape room games create an active learning environment to increase students' motivation and participation and encourage learning while developing skills. Therefore, this study examines the effectiveness of simulated escape room games in nursing students' post-mortem care education.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Simulation Training; Nursing Care; Game-Based Learning
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Intervention group; Other: Control group

Detailed Description

To meet the emotional and physical needs of the individual living in the last days of life, the nurse must have the necessary knowledge, skills, and understanding. For this reason, post-mortem care has an important place in the nursing education curriculum. To increase student motivation and include them in the learning process in clinical skills laboratory environments, game strategies have been frequently used in education in recent years. The "escape room" game has emerged as a new pedagogical method to provide interactive teaching. The use of interactive teaching and games in health education has a positive effect on the learning process.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 95
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
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    • Ankara, Please Select One, Turkey
      • University of Health Sciences Turkey, Gulhane Faculty of Nursing

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being 4th grade nursing student

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not willing to participate the study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Group 1; The escape room game will be applied to the students in the group 1 after the theoretical training.	Other: Intervention group; The escape room game will be applied to the students in the intervention group after the theoretical training.
Other: Group 2; The escape room game will not be applied to the students in the group 2 after the theoretical training.	Other: Control group; The escape room game will not be applied to the students in the control group after the theoretical training.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge	Postmortem Care Knowledge Test	5 week
Self-Efficacy	End of Life and Post-Death Self-Efficacy Scale for Nursing Students	5 week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi Gulhane Tip Fakultesi

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 1, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 8, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): December 8, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 10, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 10, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): November 12, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 29, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Education; Simulation; Escape room; Nursing student; Post-mortem care
• Other Study ID Numbers: Date: 10.09.2924 No:2024-436

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: At the end of the study, we can share the study.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No