Virtual Reality Instructional Design in Orthopedic Physical Therapy Education

Shenandoah University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Virtual Reality

Treatments: Other: Role-playing instructional design; Other: Virtual reality instructional design

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04754568

USD Paper 3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to assess the effects of virtual reality instructional design on physical therapy students' clinical decision-making skills, as compared with a traditional method of instruction with the same content and duration of exposure.

Full description

An online random number generator will be used to randomize students into one of two groups: virtual reality instruction or role-paying instruction. All students will complete self-reported measures of clinical decision-making and metacognitive awareness prior to receiving their allocated instruction. While completing allocated instruction (either virtual reality or role-playing), measures of diagnostic accuracy and diagnostic efficiency will be collected. Following virtual reality or role-playing instruction, all included subjects will complete post-test measures of clinical decision-making ,metacognitive awareness, and engagement. One week later, all included subjects will be assessed on a musculoskeletal objective structured clinical examination (mOSCE).

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 22+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students enrolled in their first year of physical therapy school at SU

Exclusion criteria

• Students enrolled in their second or third year of physical therapy school at SU

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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59 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual reality instructional design

Experimental group

Description:

Completion of virtual reality simulation of an outpatient physical therapy evaluation.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual reality instructional design

Role-playing instructional design

Active Comparator group

Description:

Completion of traditional role-playing of a scripted outpatient physical therapy evaluation

Treatment:

Other: Role-playing instructional design