The Effect of an Escape Room Simulation on Nursing Students' Educational Leadership Skills: An Experimental Study

Near East University, Turkey

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Educational Leadership; Leadership

Treatments: Behavioral: Escape Room Simulation; Other: Traditional Teaching Methods

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07500675

YDU/2025/133-1958

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effect of an escape room simulation on educational leadership skills among undergraduate nursing students. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does participation in an escape room simulation improve nursing students' educational leadership skills, including visionary, instructional, and scientific leadership?

Are there differences in educational leadership outcomes between students who participate in an escape room simulation and those who receive traditional teaching methods?

Researchers will compare an escape room simulation to traditional teaching methods to determine whether the simulation-based approach is more effective in improving educational leadership skills.

Participants will:

Be assigned to either an escape room simulation group or a traditional teaching group

Complete the Educational Leadership Scale before and after the intervention

Participate in a single escape room simulation session (experimental group only)

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Those who volunteered to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Students who cannot participate in the simulation due to health conditions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Escape Room Simulation Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm receive an escape room-based simulation designed to support educational leadership skills in undergraduate nursing education. The simulation is conducted in a nursing laboratory using a scenario that requires problem solving and decision making within a limited time.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Escape Room Simulation

Traditional Teaching Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in this arm receive traditional teaching methods without the use of simulation or game-based learning during the study period.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional Teaching Methods