Using Virtual Humans to Teach Cognitive Function Assessment to Nursing Students (VHCT-NS)

Taipei Medical University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Nursing Students

Treatments: Other: Printed material; Other: Virtual human

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07275372

N202510056

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose of the Study This study wants to find out whether a virtual human (a computer-based simulated person) can help nursing students learn how to assess someone's thinking and memory skills.

Main Question Do nursing students learn cognitive function assessment better when they use a virtual human compared with reading printed materials?

What Participants Will Do Participants will learn how to do a cognitive function assessment for about 60 minutes, either by using a virtual human or by reading printed materials.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Nursing students currently enrolled in a bachelor's or post-baccalaureate nursing program.
• Students who have not previously received instruction on the SPMSQ cognitive function assessment,

Exclusion criteria

• no

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual human

Experimental group

Description:

This group will use virtual human to learn the assessement of SPMSQ.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual human

Printed material

Active Comparator group

Description:

The comparison group will use printed material to learn the assessment of SPMSQ.

Treatment:

Other: Printed material