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Learning Through Gamification in Higher Education

NCT ID: NCT04284163

Last Updated: 2020-11-04

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

106 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-01-27

Study Completion Date

2020-11-03

Brief Summary

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"Health care legislation, management and administration" is a basic subject offered in the physical therapy university degree. The juridical features of this subject usually provokes a lack of motivation between students. Although not commonly used in university teaching, gamification could provide further affordances for improving students' engagement which provokes better assistance and learning outcomes.

Detailed Description

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* 51 students of "Health legislation, management and administration" subject of the Physical Therapy University Degree of the Catholic University of Murcia will be recruited.
* Participants will be randomly assigned into two groups: control group (traditional teaching methods) and intervention group (gamification).
* Class attendance and academic results will be register for future analysis.

Conditions

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Motivation Engagement, Patient

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Gamification group

Problem solving based methodology

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Gamification

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Teaching through gamification

Traditional teaching group

Master lesson methodology

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Traditional teaching

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Teaching through master lesson methodology

Interventions

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Gamification

Teaching through gamification

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Traditional teaching

Teaching through master lesson methodology

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Students enrolled in the subject during academic year 19-20.
* Students included must not have taken the subject before.
* Students must be able to understand and speak the Spanish language.

Exclusion Criteria

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Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Daniel Ángel García

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Catholic University of Murcia

Murcia, , Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

Other Identifiers

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CE012001

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

UCAM-Gamification (PID-12/19)

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id