Simulation-Based Training Program Effect on Pediatric Nurses Regarding Heel-Prick Screening Test

Simulation-Based Training Program Effect on Pediatric Nurses' Knowledge and Performance Regarding Heel-Prick During Newborn Blood Screening Test

This study aimed to assess the impact of simulation-based training on pediatric nurses' knowledge and performance regarding the heel-prick technique used during newborn blood screening tests in select hospitals in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. This study utilized an experimental pre-test and post-test design. The G*Power Program® Version 3.1.9.4 was employed to determine the necessary sample size to fulfill the study's objectives. The sample consisted of 50 nurses recruited from the Maternity & Children Hospital Bisha, Al-Namas General Hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Pediatric Assiut University Hospital in Egypt. The current study's findings indicate that, following simulation-based training, pediatric nurses significantly improved their heel-prick knowledge and performance during the newborn blood screening test. This study provides strong evidence that the simulation-based training program improved nurses' knowledge and performance, and we advise all pediatric healthcare practitioners, physicians, and nurses employed in hospitals and healthcare facilities to undergo advanced simulation-based training. Nursing managers can target public hospitals with low scores by putting systematic methods into place to improve nurses' performance and knowledge in simulation-based training.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Aspiration of Blood in Newborn
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: Screeing test

Detailed Description

One of the best ways to impart important skills to trainees is through simulation-based training which is more reliable than the conventional method of doing clinical examinations. It is used in pediatric nursing training to allow nurses to practice and improve their clinical and conversational skills during an actual child encounter. A heel-prick is a complex psychomotor task that requires skill and knowledge on the part of the pediatric nurse who is performing the procedure while applying for the National Newborn Screening Program.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Cairo, Egypt
    • Abeer

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:The study's inclusion criteria encompassed nurses, regardless of their age, gender, education, experience, part-time status, or administrative responsibilities, who gave their consent to participate. Pediatric nurses in experimental and control groups had recently graduated, worked for less than 6 months, and did not have any training program by simulation-based training for using the Newborn Blood Spot Test Simulator regarding heel-pricks during newborn blood screening tests.

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Exclusion Criteria:The exclusion criteria included nursing experience for more than six months, as well as non-consenting participants.

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Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Simulation-Based Training Program Effect on Pediatric Nurses' Knowledge and Performance; Simulation-Based Training Program	Diagnostic test: Screeing test; Simulation-Based Training Program Effect on Pediatric Nurses' Knowledge and Performance Regarding Heel-Prick during Newborn Blood Screening Test
No Intervention: traditional method; traditional method program

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
• pediatric nurses' knowledge in newborn blood screening tests compared to traditional training methods	• Simulation-based training will increase the pediatric nurses' knowledge in newborn blood screening tests compared to traditional training methods.	8 week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Abeer Abd Elwahed Almowafy
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Abeer Almowafy, Al-Azhar University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 30, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): August 20, 2023

Study Registration Dates

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

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): November 12, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 10, 2024
• Last Verified: November 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: UB-RELOC H-06-BH-089)/ 1204.24

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