Comparing the Outcomes of Virtual Reality Based Serious Gaming and Lecture Based Training for Advanced Life Support

Acibadem University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Treatments: Other: Lecture based training for advanced life support; Other: ALS VR (VR based serious gaming module for advanced life support training)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05798910

2022-19/04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The hypothesis of this study is to reveal whether virtual reality(VR) based Advanced Life Support(ALS) serious game module can replace classroom-based ALS lecture, which is part of existing ALS training protocol in addition to skills training.

Full description

The participants consisting of students from Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University Vocational School for Anesthesiology (N=29) were randomly divided into two groups with 15 (Conventional training group) and 14 (VR based training group) participants each. The members of the conventional group had to complete pretest at the beginning of the study. Afterwards they had to take part at an interactive classroom based lecture about ALS. The next step was the skills training with task trainers in order to teach them compression skills. Afterwards, the conventional group was divided into three blue code teams consisting of each 5 participants for the simulation session. Two independent instructors evaluated the video recordings in terms of technical and nontechnical skills. The final stage of the study were completing the post-test. The members of VR group had a similar study flow but they had to play with the VR based ALS serious game module instead of the theoretical lecture during the study flow. A survey about preference of VR based trainings was conducted for the members of the VR group. Mann Whitney U Test and Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test were used for statistical analysis of the two groups' performances in this study.

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 22 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having normal or corrected to normal vision
• No history of visually induced motion sickness

Exclusion criteria

• Previously experienced VR-induced motion sickness
• Other medical conditions (Epilepsy, vertigo attacks)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional Training Group (15 Participants)

Active Comparator group

Description:

The members of the conventional group had to complete pretest at the beginning of the study. Afterwards they had to take part at an interactive classroom based lecture about Advanced Life Support. The next step was the skills training with task trainers in order to teach them compression skills. Afterwards, the conventional group was divided into three blue code teams consisting of each 5 participants for the simulation session. Two independent instructors evaluated the video recordings in terms of technical and nontechnical skills. The final stage of the study were completing the post-test.

Treatment:

Other: Lecture based training for advanced life support

VR Group (14 Participants)

Active Comparator group

Description:

The members of the VR group had to complete pretest at the beginning of the study. Afterwards they had to play with the VR based serious game module for Advanced Life Support. The next step was the skills training with task trainers in order to teach them compression skills. Afterwards, the conventional group was divided into three blue code teams consisting of each 5 participants for the simulation session. Two independent instructors evaluated the video recordings in terms of technical and nontechnical skills. The final stage of the study were completing the post-test. The aprticipants of this group were also asked to fill a survey about their VR experience during the study.

Treatment:

Other: ALS VR (VR based serious gaming module for advanced life support training)