the Impact of a Digital Game-based Learning Activity on Nursing Students' Understanding of Surgical Site Infections

the Impact of a Digital Game-based Learning Activity on Nursing Students' Learning and Motivation Levels Regarding Surgical Site Infection Prevention Initiatives

The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the effect of a digital game-based learning activity on students' learning of interventions to prevent surgical site infections.This study will seek answers to the following questions:

Is digital game-based learning activity effective in students' learning process? Is the traditional method of theoretical lecturing effective in the learning process? What is the effect of students' learning methods on their motivation? The researchers will compare the group with the theoretical lecture to see the effectiveness of the digital game-based learning activity.

Participants will be divided into 3 groups. In the first group, the level of learning interventions to prevent surgical site infections with digital game-based learning activity will be evaluated with pre-test and post-test In the second group, the level of learning the theoretical course and interventions to prevent surgical site infections will be evaluated with pre-test and post-test.

The control group will be evaluated only with the pre-test post-test without any intervention.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Education; Surgical Site Infections
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: digital game-based learning activity; Behavioral: traditional method

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 75
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • VAN, Turkey, 65000
    • Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi /Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having a cell phone, computer or tablet device.

  • To have internet access on one of the cell phone, computer or tablet devices.
  • To have taken the Surgical Diseases Nursing course.
  • To be a 4th year student of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing
  • Volunteering to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

• - Graduating from a health vocational high school or coming from a health-related department with vertical transfer
• Limited ability to read and write in Turkish.
• Not having a software infrastructure suitable for opening digital game activities on mobile phones, computers or tablet devices

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: digital game-based learning activity group; the level of learning interventions to prevent surgical site infections with digital game-based learning activity will be evaluated with pre-test and post-test	Behavioral: digital game-based learning activity; learning interventions to prevent surgical site infections with a digital game-based learning activity
Active Comparator: theoretical course group; the level of learning the theoretical course and interventions to prevent surgical site infections will be evaluated with pre-test and post-test	Behavioral: traditional method; Evaluation of the effectiveness of students' learning of interventions to prevent surgical site infections in the theoretical course taught by traditional method
No Intervention: control group; The control group will be evaluated only with the pre-test post-test without any intervention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
pre-test post-test question form	the effectiveness of the digital game-based learning activity will be measured by pre-test post-test (Measurement will be made with a pre-test post-test prepared by the researcher.)	after the pre-test is applied, the digital game-based learning activity will be used for 5 days. the post-test will be applied 3 weeks after the pre-test

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
pre-test post-test question form	pre-test post-test will be applied to evaluate the effectiveness of theoretical explanation with traditional method (Measurement will be made with a pre-test post-test prepared by the researcher.)	After the pre-test is applied, a 45-minute theoretical lesson will be held with the students. Post-test will be applied 3 weeks after the pre-test

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
the effect of teaching methods on student motivation	'Teaching material motivation scale' will be applied at the end of the study to determine the effect of teaching methods on student motivation This scale is used to determine the motivation towards a material based on a single application where the user is only dependent on the material. A high score on the total or average score of the scale indicates that the individual's motivation towards the material being evaluated is positively high.	measurement will be made with 3 weeks between pre-test and post-test

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Yuzuncu Yıl University
• Collaborators: University of Gaziantep

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 9, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 30, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): May 7, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 18, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 31, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): January 1, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 7, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 6, 2025
• Last Verified: May 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Postoperative Complications; Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Wound Infection; Infections; Communicable Diseases; Surgical Wound Infection
• Other Study ID Numbers: VYYU-SBF-HAKALTUN-001

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No