NCT05604807

Dementia-friendly Community Training Using Virtual Reality Among College Nursing Students

From the Classroom to the Rural Community: Engaging Nursing College Students to Create a Dementia-friendly Community Using Virtual Reality and World café Teaching Strategies

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tzu Chi University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a dementia course using virtual reality, world café teaching method and community practice on knowledge of dementia and dementia-friendly community, attitude toward dementia, and empathy toward people with dementia among nursing college students.

Detailed description

This two-group randomised controlled trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a dementia course using virtual reality on knowledge of dementia and dementia-friendly community, attitude toward dementia, and empathy toward people with dementia among nursing college students. The interventional group will receive the dementia course consists of dementia virtual reality activity, intergenerational learning, world café teaching method and community practice. The control group will only receive the dementia course with intergenerational learning, world café teaching method and community practice but no dementia virtual reality activity. Both groups will be assessed for their dementia knowledge, attitudes, empathy and knowledge of dementia-friendly community at baseline, week 8, and week 18.

Conditions

• Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dementia course with virtual reality	dementia virtual reality activity, intergenerational learning, world café teaching method and community practice
OTHER	Dementia course with no virtual reality	dementia course, intergenerational learning, world café teaching method and community practice

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-17
• Primary completion: 2023-03-31
• Completion: 2023-03-31
• First posted: 2022-11-03
• Last updated: 2025-08-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan