Development of an Educational Video Game to Improve Nursing Students' Reasoning With Acute Heart Failure Patients

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

28 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-10-13

Study Completion Date

2020-12-08

Brief Summary

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The aim of this study is to appreciate, using quantitative and qualitative empirical methods, the contribution of an educational video game to the engagement, the motivation, and the development of nursing students' interpretation of acute heart failure patients' health condition. Two prototypes of the same educational video game have been developed. Study participants will play with both prototypes, complete online questionnaires and be interviewed by a research assistant regarding their experience with both prototypes. Study results will serve to select the most promising prototype between the two, based on its potential to support the engagement, the motivation, and the development of nursing students' interpretation of acute heart failure patients' health condition. Study results will also serve to refine the selected prototype before conducting a larger-scale efficacy trial. As such and given the small sample number of participants that is expected, it is not planned to conduct hypothesis testing.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Heart Failure Motivation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

The quantitative component is a two-group randomized crossover trial with 1:1 group allocation. Each participant will be randomly allocated to one of the two intervention sequences (i.e., the serious game SIGN@L-A followed by the serious game SIGN@L-B or vice versa). The randomization sequence list will be generated by an individual independent to quantitative data collection using an online program (randomizer.org). The primary investigator will not have access to this list. This individual will inform the primary investigator of participants' allocation after they have consented to be randomized, their randomization order based on the exact time they have completed the online consent form. Block randomization will be used with block sizes of six to avoid imbalances in group sizes.

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Due to the nature of the interventions evaluated, participants cannot be blinded to group allocation. Furthermore, since the primary investigator is a PhD candidate and that this is his doctoral project, he will also not be blinded to group allocation as he will be responsible for assigning participants to one of the two intervention sequences and provide technical support, if needed.

Study Groups

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SIGN@L-A followed by SIGN@L-B

Participants in this arm will have access to the prototype "SIGN@L-A" of the serious game for seven days. They will have access to this prototype from their personal computer and will be able to play with it whenever they want and for how long they wish during this period. After these seven days, they will have access the same way to the prototype "SIGN@L-B".

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SIGN@L-A

Intervention Type OTHER

Two prototypes of a serious game were developed as part of this study. The design of these prototypes is based on the conceptual model by Alexiou and Schippers (2018) linking the instructional design of a serious game to intrinsic motivation, engagement, and learning outcomes. The design of SIGN@L-A will include all elements of the serious game instructional design proposed by these authors which are game mechanics (i.e., objectives to meet, feedback, and rewards), a narrative (i.e., a protagonist, non-playable characters, and narrative events), and aesthetics (i.e., functional and hedonic aesthetics).

SIGN@L-B

Intervention Type OTHER

The design of SIGN@L-B will include only some of these elements which are some of the game mechanics (i.e., objectives to meet, limited feedback), and a functional aesthetic.

SIGN@L-B followed by SIGN@L-A

Participants in this arm will have access to the prototype "SIGN@L-B" of the serious game for seven days. They will have access to this prototype from their personal computer and will be able to play with it whenever they want and for how long they wish during this period. After these seven days, they will have access the same way to the prototype "SIGN@L-A".

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SIGN@L-A

Intervention Type OTHER

Two prototypes of a serious game were developed as part of this study. The design of these prototypes is based on the conceptual model by Alexiou and Schippers (2018) linking the instructional design of a serious game to intrinsic motivation, engagement, and learning outcomes. The design of SIGN@L-A will include all elements of the serious game instructional design proposed by these authors which are game mechanics (i.e., objectives to meet, feedback, and rewards), a narrative (i.e., a protagonist, non-playable characters, and narrative events), and aesthetics (i.e., functional and hedonic aesthetics).

SIGN@L-B

Intervention Type OTHER

The design of SIGN@L-B will include only some of these elements which are some of the game mechanics (i.e., objectives to meet, limited feedback), and a functional aesthetic.

Interventions

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SIGN@L-A

Two prototypes of a serious game were developed as part of this study. The design of these prototypes is based on the conceptual model by Alexiou and Schippers (2018) linking the instructional design of a serious game to intrinsic motivation, engagement, and learning outcomes. The design of SIGN@L-A will include all elements of the serious game instructional design proposed by these authors which are game mechanics (i.e., objectives to meet, feedback, and rewards), a narrative (i.e., a protagonist, non-playable characters, and narrative events), and aesthetics (i.e., functional and hedonic aesthetics).

Intervention Type OTHER

SIGN@L-B

The design of SIGN@L-B will include only some of these elements which are some of the game mechanics (i.e., objectives to meet, limited feedback), and a functional aesthetic.

Intervention Type OTHER