The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Nursing Students' Compliance

Karadeniz Technical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education; Isolation; Nursing Students

Treatments: Other: Education, dijital storytelling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05022953

KaradenizTU-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigated the effect of digital storytelling on nursing students' compliance with isolation precautions and their knowledge levels.This was a pretest-posttest open-label randomized controlled trial. The nursing department of the faculty of health sciences of a university in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. The sample consisted of 109 fourth-year nursing students divided into groups of experimental (n=66) and control (n=43). Data were collected using a demographic characteristics questionnaire, an Isolation Knowledge Test (IKT), a Questionnaire of Students' Opinions on Digital storytelling (QSODS), and the Scale of Compliance with Isolation Precautions (SKIP). The experimental group attended a digital storytelling activity (intervention), while the control group received an education based on the curriculum. The data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test, the Wilcoxon test, the Analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the Spearman correlation test.

Enrollment: 109 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 22 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being voluntary
• Having access to the Internet

Exclusion criteria

• Not attending the digital storytelling activity (intervention)
• Not taking the posttest

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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109 participants in 2 patient groups

Digital Story Group

Experimental group

Description:

Digital Story Group: One of the researchers gave the experimental group participants a 15-minute briefing on how to perform digital storytelling. She also told them not to talk to the control group participants about the content of the briefing. She created a Pixton account (https://edu.pixton.com/educators/) and a class named "Isolation." She sent the link (https://join.pixton.com/x5xb6) to the experimental group participants. She asked them to click on the link and make stories out of their knowledge of isolation in four weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Education, dijital storytelling

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group participants did not go through any training in isolation.