The Effect of Crossword and Word Search Puzzles on Nursing Students' Parenteral Medication Administration Knowledge

NCT ID: NCT06105216

Last Updated: 2023-11-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 220 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-04-26
• Study Completion Date: 2023-05-31

Brief Summary

This study was conducted in a pretest-posttest parallel-group, randomized controlled design.The population of the study consisted of students (n=220) enrolled in the Fundamentals of Nursing course at the Faculty of Nursing of a public university in the 2022-2023 academic year.According to the exclusion criteria, 56 students were excluded from the study. One hundred sixty-four students who met the inclusion criteria were randomized to the intervention I (n = 82) and control groups (n = 82) by stratified block randomization after the completion of baseline measures. The study was completed with 164 students. The theoretical lecture was carried out by a researcher who was an expert faculty member in Fundamentals of Nursing. All students completed the pretest after attending the theoretical lecture. In the laboratory practice after the theoretical lecture, all students were divided into small groups and practiced parenteral medication administration skills one-to-one under the guidance of the instructor. Students in the intervention group received hard copies of the puzzles at the end of the laboratory practice. All students completed the posttest again at the end of the laboratory practice. Students were supervised during the tests and were not allowed to consult any books, the internet, or any other source of information.

Conditions

Nursing Education; Medicatioon Administration Knowledge; Puzzle

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention Group

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Crossword and word search puzzles

Intervention Type: OTHER

Students in the intervention group received hard copies of the puzzles at the end of the laboratory practice.

Control Group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Crossword and word search puzzles

Students in the intervention group received hard copies of the puzzles at the end of the laboratory practice.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

(1) Register for the Fundamentals of Nursing course for the first time.

Exclusion Criteria

1. not communicate in Turkish

2. graduate from any health-related university in the past.

• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Evrim Eyikara

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Evrim Eyikara

Director

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Gülcan Eyüboğlu

Ankara, Yenimahalle, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

2023-253

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id