An Escape Room for Nursing Students Taking Pharmacology Classes

NCT ID: NCT07073222

Last Updated: 2025-07-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 32 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-01-06
• Study Completion Date: 2025-07-30

Brief Summary

The study was planned as a pre-test-post-test single-group, quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effects of the education provided with the escape room game on the level of autonomic nervous system drug knowledge and perceptions of the game experience in nursing students taking the Pharmacology course. The sample of the study will consist of students enrolled in the Nursing Pharmacology course at the Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing in the 2024-2025 academic year, who meet the research criteria and agree to participate in the study. The study will be conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the necessary materials for the game development and evaluation process will be prepared and the content validity study of these materials will be conducted. In the second stage, the escape room game will be applied and data will be collected. The data will be collected with the "Descriptive Characteristics Form" and the "Autonomic Nervous System Drug Knowledge Test" (pre-test) before the escape room game, and with the "Autonomic Nervous System Drug Knowledge Test" (post-test) and the "Game Playing Experience Scale" after the game. The analysis of the data will be completed by transferring it to the IBM SPSS Statistics 23 program.

H1a = There is a difference between the mean scores of the autonomic nervous system knowledge test of the students who participated in the escape room game before and after the game.

H1b = There is no difference between the mean scores of the autonomic nervous system knowledge test of the students who participated in the escape room game before and after the game

Detailed Description

The research was planned in a pretest-posttest one-group, quasi-experimental design design in order to evaluate the effect of the training given with the escape room game on the autonomic nervous system drug knowledge level of the students and their perceptions of the game experience in nursing students taking the Pharmacology course. The population of the study will consist of students enrolled in the Pharmacology Course for Nurses at Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing in the 2024-2025 academic year. In the research, it is planned to reach the universe and no sampling calculation was made. The sample of the research will consist of the students enrolled in the Pharmacology Course for Nurses at Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing in the 2024-2025 academic year, who meet the research criteria and who agree to participate in the research. The research will be conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the materials required for the game development and evaluation process will be prepared and the content validity study of these materials will be carried out. In the second stage, the escape room game will be applied and the data will be collected. The data will be collected before the escape room game with "Descriptive Characteristics Form" and "Autonomic Nervous System Drug Knowledge Test" (pre-test), and after the game with "Autonomic Nervous System Drug Knowledge Test" (post-test) and "Game Playing Experience Scale". Data analysis will be completed by transferring to IBM SPSS Statistics 23 programme. Frequency distribution (number, percentage) for categorical variables and descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum) for numerical variables will be given. Parametric and nonparametric tests will be used according to the normal distribution of the data.

Conditions

Nursing Student; Pharmacology

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Escape room playgroup

Escape room game is played with escape room game group

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Escape room game

Intervention Type: OTHER

Escape room games are live action team-based games where players discover clues, solve puzzles and complete tasks in one or more rooms to accomplish a specific goal within a limited time.

Interventions

Escape room game

Escape room games are live action team-based games where players discover clues, solve puzzles and complete tasks in one or more rooms to accomplish a specific goal within a limited time.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• First time registration in Pharmacology Course for Nurses,
• Volunteering to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria

• Having a high school, associate degree or bachelor's degree in a health-related field,
• Having difficulty in understanding and speaking Turkish.

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Nurhan Aktaş

assistant professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Kahramanmaraş Istiklal University

Kahramanmaraş, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

Istiklal University

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id