The Effectiveness of Virtual Patient Simulation Versus Peer Simulation in Providing Sexual Counseling During Pregnancy

Ankara University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Sexuality; Pregnancy

Treatments: Other: virtual patient simulation; Other: face-to-face peer simulation; Other: peer simulation conducted in a virtual environment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06949501

03.03.2025/05-87

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to compare, in a multidimensional manner, the effectiveness of different educational methods-virtual patient simulation and peer simulation-in improving sexual counseling skills during pregnancy among nursing faculty students.

The study will evaluate three different training methods: virtual patient simulation, peer simulation conducted in a virtual environment, and face-to-face peer simulation. To determine the effectiveness of peer simulation and virtual patient simulation in sexual health counseling, multimodal data collection and analysis methods will be used. These methods will contribute to the development of counseling skills by examining in detail the verbal and non-verbal communication elements exhibited by participants during their interactions with virtual patients and peers. Throughout the research process, students' demographic characteristics, sexual attitudes and beliefs, sexual counseling skills, learning satisfaction and self-confidence levels, opinions on system usability, eye-tracking data, and body movements will be analyzed.

Enrollment: 51 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having the ability to provide care for pregnant women - Providing informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Having suspended enrollment or taken a leave of absence from education.
• Having received formal education aimed at developing sexual counseling skills.
• Wearing glasses (as it may interfere with the use of wearable eye-tracking systems).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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51 participants in 3 patient groups

virtual patient simulation group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: virtual patient simulation

peer simulation conducted in a virtual environment group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: peer simulation conducted in a virtual environment

face-to-face peer simulation group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: face-to-face peer simulation