Interactive Ren'Py Learning in Physiotherapy Education

Ahmet Koçyiğit

Status: Completed

Conditions: Student

Treatments: Other: Digital Instructional Material; Other: Conventional Instructional Material

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07274839

03.07.2024/468499

https://osf.io/38ntm (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Advances in health professions education increasingly emphasize the use of digital technologies to enhance student engagement and support diverse learning needs. In physiotherapy training, particularly in technically complex subjects like electrotherapy, conventional instruction may fall short in fostering active learning and knowledge retention. Game-based platforms such as Ren'Py offer an opportunity to integrate interactive, scenario-based learning into the curriculum. This study aimed to assess the impact of Ren'Py-based digital materials on learning outcomes by comparing conventional, digital, and hybrid teaching models in an undergraduate electrotherapy course.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Voluntary participation
• Cumulative GPA above 1.80
• Access to a device compatible with at least one of the following operating systems or platforms: Linux x86_64/Arm, Windows 7 or later, or Mac OS X 10.10 or later

Exclusion criteria

• History of course failure due to absenteeism

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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80 participants in 3 patient groups

Conventional Education

Active Comparator group

Description:

The course content was standardized using materials from the "CK4Stim-Clinical Key for Electrical Stimulation in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation" project (CK4Stim, Access Date: October 2024). The CK4Stim project, supported by the European Union and involving multiple projects partners, aims to develop a common language for the use of electrical stimulation in physiotherapy and rehabilitation education in accordance with European standards.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional Instructional Material

Digital Education

Experimental group

Description:

A lesson package containing a story in an interactive visual novel format created using Ren'Py. This package was designed by the researchers to include the theoretical and practical contents of the medium frequency currents unit, again using the content of the CK4Stım project.

Treatment:

Other: Digital Instructional Material

Conventional and Digital Education

Other group

Description:

A group that received both educational models for comparison.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional Instructional Material

Other: Digital Instructional Material