Effectiveness of Augmented Reality in the Teaching of Health University Students. (AR2022)

University of Malaga

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education

Treatments: Other: Control group; Other: Augmented reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05798468

UMA_Aumentaty 2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The exponential growth of new technologies has meant that the educational field has had to update itself. From the educational point of view, there are some studies that have promoted the implementation of new technologies. These facts have raised the need to implement augmented reality in the university environment, especially among students of health sciences. The use of augmented reality can mean a new approach to teaching by teachers and better learning by students. Objetive: To compare the degree of usability of the two augmented reality applications and to analyse the academic performance of the control group and the experimental group at the Universities of Cadiz and Malaga. The existence of significant differences and relationships between the two variables will be observed.

Full description

This research has followed the SPIRIT statement and the ethical and legal aspects of the Principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. An intervention was carried out using two augmented reality applications in the subject of General Procedures in Physiotherapy II at the Universities of Malaga and Cadiz.

Enrollment: 203 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17 to 26 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students who belong to the degree of Physiotherapy and who are enrolled in the subject General Procedures in Physical Therapy II.

Exclusion criteria

• Non-university students.
• Non-university students from outside the health care field.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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203 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

Other group

Description:

There will be two control groups. One control group will belong to the University of Malaga and the other will belong to the University of Cadiz. This group will follow the traditional teaching method. The total sample of the group will be approximately 96 students, ensuring a homogeneous distribution between the two groups.

Treatment:

Other: Control group

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

There will be two experimental groups. One experimental group will belong to the University of Malaga and will use augmented reality using Zapworks software while the other experimental group will belong to the University and will use the Aumentaty platform. The sample will be made up of approximately 107 students, ensuring a homogeneous distribution between the two groups. Both the software and the platform mentioned above will work with augmented reality in the educational field, in this case in the university environment.

Treatment:

Other: Augmented reality