Development of a Partograph E-learning Tool and Evaluation of Its Efficiency in Student Midwives

NCT ID: NCT05909306

Last Updated: 2023-06-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 93 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-06-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-10-28

Brief Summary

A randomized control trial was made to develop a partograph e-learning tool and evaluate its effectiveness in student midwives in Turkey.

Detailed Description

With the use of a partograph, complications are detected and intervened promptly, and unnecessary applications are avoided. Therefore, it has become an integral part of the practices of midwives who manage normal births under their responsibility to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. One of the intrapartum care services of midwives is to detect prolonged labor, especially with the use of a partograph, and to apply quick and accurate intervention. However, the partograph is not widely used all over the world at the desired level.

Recently, the use of the e-learning system, which is recommended as a method of obtaining and perceiving information easily, has increased considerably. Although this is a new concept in our country, it has started to be adopted rapidly.

In our country, there is no study on the use of e-learning in midwifery practices. However, in many international studies, it is stated that e-learning is acceptable and more practical and effective than classical methods in midwifery education and practices. This research was designed as a randomized controlled experimental study to develop an e-learning tool that could be an alternative to midwifery students' learning of the use of a partograph and to evaluate its effectiveness.

The hypothesis was tested that there is a significant difference between the students who received and did not receive training with the partograph e-learning tool in terms of post-test education achievement scores. In addition, it was found that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test education achievement scores of the students who received training with the partograph e-learning tool.

Conditions

Midwifery Students Education

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Education Group

The education group was applied partograph education in addition to formal education by using the partograph e-learning tool that was developed.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Education Group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Two online meetings were planned with the education group. In the first meeting, an average of 35-minute-long live lecturing was performed on filling out the data forms and using the partograph e-learning tool through e-learning tool created in the first interview. The researcher held the second interview one week after the first one. In the second interview, a live lecture lasting 30 minutes was given to talk about and solve the problems that students experienced with the partograph e-learning tool and answer the questions. The partograph e-learning tool was kept open for one month for the students in the education group. At the end of the one-month education, the students were asked to fill out the post-test (Academic Achievement Test) defined in the system. After the post-test was completed, the system was closed to the access of the students in the education group and made available to the students in the control group.

Control Group

The control group continued their formal education.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Education Group

Two online meetings were planned with the education group. In the first meeting, an average of 35-minute-long live lecturing was performed on filling out the data forms and using the partograph e-learning tool through e-learning tool created in the first interview. The researcher held the second interview one week after the first one. In the second interview, a live lecture lasting 30 minutes was given to talk about and solve the problems that students experienced with the partograph e-learning tool and answer the questions. The partograph e-learning tool was kept open for one month for the students in the education group. At the end of the one-month education, the students were asked to fill out the post-test (Academic Achievement Test) defined in the system. After the post-test was completed, the system was closed to the access of the students in the education group and made available to the students in the control group.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Studying in the 3rd year of the midwifery undergraduate program
• Those who took the Childbirth and Postpartum Period Lecture and enrolled in the Childbirth and Postpartum Period At Risk Lecture
• Able to use the internet and computer
• Having an e-mail address with which he can communicate over the internet
• Students with internet access

Exclusion Criteria

• Students who could not continue their education due to reasons (Registration freeze, lateral transfer, health problems, etc.) were excluded from the research.

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Aydin Adnan Menderes University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Damla Kizilca Cakaloz

Research Assistant

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Damla Kizilca Cakaloz, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Midwifery

Ayden Coban, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Midwifery

Locations

Adnan Menderes University

Aydin, Efeler, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

Interventional study in Turkey

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id