Using Virtual Humans to Teach Cognitive Function Assessment to Nursing Students (VHCT-NS)

Effectiveness of Virtual Humans in Learning Cognitive Function Assessment Among Nursing Students

Purpose of the Study This study wants to find out whether a virtual human (a computer-based simulated person) can help nursing students learn how to assess someone's thinking and memory skills.

Main Question Do nursing students learn cognitive function assessment better when they use a virtual human compared with reading printed materials?

What Participants Will Do Participants will learn how to do a cognitive function assessment for about 60 minutes, either by using a virtual human or by reading printed materials.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Nursing Students
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Virtual human; Other: Printed material

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 60
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Chia-I Chao; Phone Number: 886-930120686; Email: b405112016@tmu.edu.tw

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • Taiwan
    • Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan, 110
      • Recruiting
      • Taipei Medical University
      • Contact: Yeu-Hui Chuang, PhD; Phone Number: 6328 886-2-27361661; Email: yeuhui@tmu.edu.tw
      • Principal Investigator: Yeu-Hui Chuang, PhD

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Nursing students currently enrolled in a bachelor's or post-baccalaureate nursing program.
• Students who have not previously received instruction on the SPMSQ cognitive function assessment,

Exclusion Criteria:

• no

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Virtual human; This group will use virtual human to learn the assessement of SPMSQ.	Other: Virtual human; There are five scenarios integrated into Virtual human software.
Active Comparator: Printed material; The comparison group will use printed material to learn the assessment of SPMSQ.	Other: Printed material; The comparison group will read the printed material regarding SPMSQ assessment.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Competence of cognitive function assessment	Participants are required to conduct a cognitive function assessment on the virtual patient within a designed clinical scenario. The system assigns a score based on the completion of each item, with higher scores indicating better cognitive assessment ability.	60 minutes
Knowledge of cognitive function assessment	A total of ten items were included. Each correct answer receives one point, while incorrect or "don't know" responses receive zero points. The total score ranges from 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating better knowledge of cognitive function assessment among the students.	60 minutes
Confidence scale	The scale consists of five items, each scored from 1 to 5, with a total score ranging from 5 to 25. Higher scores indicate greater confidence in performing cognitive function assessments among the participants.	60 minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Learning Material Satisfaction Questionnaire	The questionnaire includes 10 items and is scored on a 5-point Likert scale, where "strongly disagree" = 1, "disagree" = 2, "neutral" = 3, "agree" = 4, and "strongly agree" = 5. The total score ranges from 10 to 50, with higher scores indicating greater satisfaction with the learning material (either the VH-based material or the printed material).	60 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Taipei Medical University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 2, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 28, 2025
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 28, 2025
• First Posted (Estimated): December 10, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): January 20, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 16, 2026
• Last Verified: November 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: N202510056

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