Effectiveness of Digital Escape Room Game-Based Disaster Midwifery Training: MERCI Model

NCT ID: NCT07090642

Last Updated: 2025-08-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2026-02-01
• Study Completion Date: 2026-12-31

Brief Summary

Midwives play important societal roles during the post-crisis transition and recovery phase. Specific guidelines regarding the roles and responsibilities of midwives, who constitute a significant majority among healthcare professionals, in disaster management need to be developed, and the concept of disaster midwifery needs to be developed. Providing midwife candidates with disaster awareness throughout their undergraduate education will also positively impact individuals' self-efficacy. In recent years, educational plans for emergency obstetric care and management have evolved from traditional theoretical and clinical training to game-based learning, gamification, and training using mannequins and simulators. It is suggested that using different learning strategies in the training of healthcare professionals in emergency obstetric situations will improve the quality of care and reduce maternal mortality rates. Natural disasters such as disasters can cause serious obstetric emergencies requiring immediate intervention and management. Supporting the professional training of midwives, who play important roles and responsibilities in disaster management, with diverse teaching strategies is crucial for enhancing their individual competencies.

This study is based on a game-based learning approach through an interactive, educational digital escape room game developed on the Genially platform. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the effects of a digital escape room game-based disaster midwifery training on midwifery students' knowledge, self-efficacy in disaster response, and confidence and anxiety levels in clinical decision-making. This experimental study, designed with a randomized pretest, posttest, and follow-up design and a control group, will be conducted with third- and fourth-year midwifery students in the Department of Midwifery at the Health Sciences University (SBU), Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences (HSBF), during the spring semester of the 2025-2026 academic year. The sample size was determined using Koca and Arkan's study. Based on a Cohen's d = 1.35 effect size and a power level of 95%, a total of 80 participants were planned, with 40 students in each group. Participants included in the study will be administered the "Informed Consent Form," "Introductory Information Form," "Disaster Midwifery Information Form," "Disaster Intervention Self-Efficacy Scale," "Self-Confidence and Anxiety Scale in Clinical Decision Making," and "Game Experience Scale." Discussions and conclusions of the study will be written based on the findings.

Conditions

Digital Escape Room; Game-Based Learning

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

İntervention group

Simultaneously with the module training, the four-part escape room game "M.E.R.C.I." will be applied to the intervention group.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Digital escape room game

Intervention Type: OTHER

Concurrent with the module training, the intervention group will be given the four-part escape room game "M.E.R.C.I." The game's sections will be developed in parallel with the weekly topics of the disaster midwifery module training.

Control group

In addition to standard theoretical training, case-based learning techniques will be applied to students in the control group.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Digital escape room game

Concurrent with the module training, the intervention group will be given the four-part escape room game "M.E.R.C.I." The game's sections will be developed in parallel with the weekly topics of the disaster midwifery module training.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the study.
• Having internet access.
• Having a smartphone.
• Having successfully completed a course on normal birth and postpartum.
• Being an active third-year student in the Midwifery Department of Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences.
• Being an active fourth-year student in the Midwifery Department of Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences.

Exclusion Criteria

• Being a 4th-year inactive student in the Midwifery Department of Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences.
• Being a 3rd-year inactive student in the Midwifery Department of Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences.

• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

YASEMİN AYDIN KARTAL

Prof. Dr.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

University of Health Sciences

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

Yasemin AYDIN KARTAL, PROF. DR.

Role: CONTACT

yasemin.aydin@sbu.edu.tr

(0216) 777 87 77

Sema AKER, Msc

Role: CONTACT

semanuraker@gmail.com

(0216) 777 87 77

Facility Contacts

Sema AKER, Msc.

Role: primary

semanuraker@gmail.com

(0216) 777 87 77

Other Identifiers

SBU-AYDINKARTAL-AKER

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id