Virtual Reality Instructional Design in Orthopedic Physical Therapy Education

NCT ID: NCT04754568

Last Updated: 2021-09-21

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

59 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-01-01

Study Completion Date

2021-08-01

Brief Summary

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The objective of this study is to assess the effects of virtual reality instructional design on physical therapy students' clinical decision-making skills, as compared with a traditional method of instruction with the same content and duration of exposure.

Detailed Description

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An online random number generator will be used to randomize students into one of two groups: virtual reality instruction or role-paying instruction. All students will complete self-reported measures of clinical decision-making and metacognitive awareness prior to receiving their allocated instruction. While completing allocated instruction (either virtual reality or role-playing), measures of diagnostic accuracy and diagnostic efficiency will be collected. Following virtual reality or role-playing instruction, all included subjects will complete post-test measures of clinical decision-making ,metacognitive awareness, and engagement. One week later, all included subjects will be assessed on a musculoskeletal objective structured clinical examination (mOSCE).

Conditions

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Virtual Reality

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Virtual reality instructional design

Completion of virtual reality simulation of an outpatient physical therapy evaluation.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Virtual reality instructional design

Intervention Type OTHER

60 minute immersive VR experience with branching method information delivery, physical therapy assessment, and diagnosis.

Role-playing instructional design

Completion of traditional role-playing of a scripted outpatient physical therapy evaluation

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Role-playing instructional design

Intervention Type OTHER

60 minute traditional role-playing with standardized patient

Interventions

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Virtual reality instructional design

60 minute immersive VR experience with branching method information delivery, physical therapy assessment, and diagnosis.

Intervention Type OTHER

Role-playing instructional design

60 minute traditional role-playing with standardized patient

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Students enrolled in their first year of physical therapy school at SU

Exclusion Criteria

* Students enrolled in their second or third year of physical therapy school at SU
Minimum Eligible Age

22 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Shenandoah University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Aaron Hartstein

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Patti Berg-Poppe, PT, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of South Dakota

Locations

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Shenandoah University

Winchester, Virginia, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Kleinert R, Heiermann N, Plum PS, Wahba R, Chang DH, Maus M, Chon SH, Hoelscher AH, Stippel DL. Web-Based Immersive Virtual Patient Simulators: Positive Effect on Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education. J Med Internet Res. 2015 Nov 17;17(11):e263. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5035.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26577020 (View on PubMed)

Middeke A, Anders S, Schuelper M, Raupach T, Schuelper N. Training of clinical reasoning with a Serious Game versus small-group problem-based learning: A prospective study. PLoS One. 2018 Sep 11;13(9):e0203851. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203851. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30204773 (View on PubMed)

Middeke A, Anders S, Raupach T, Schuelper N. Transfer of Clinical Reasoning Trained With a Serious Game to Comparable Clinical Problems: A Prospective Randomized Study. Simul Healthc. 2020 Apr;15(2):75-81. doi: 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000407.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32044851 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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USD Paper 3

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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