NCT05982457

The Effect of Virtual Reality Application in Cervical Dilatation and Effacement Teaching

The Effect of Virtual Reality Application in Cervical Dilatation and Effacement Teaching on Students' Satisfaction, Self-Confidence and Anxiety Levels

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 102 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sevgi Beyazgül · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this project is to determine the effect of virtual reality application in cervical dilatation and effacement teaching on students' satisfaction, confidence and anxiety levels.

Detailed description

Midwifery education is extremely important in terms of training midwives specialized in mother-child health. Cervical dilation and effacement is one of the subjects that should be learned well in order to manage the birth process well. Dilatation and effacement of the cervix is the enlargement (dilatation) and thinning (effacement) of the cervical opening and cervical canal when labor begins. Cervical dilation and effacement training is a tactile skill practice that requires constant repetition and practice. Therefore, it cannot be learned by observing, effective learning can be achieved by experiencing it repeatedly in pregnant women. Midwifery students gain experience in the teaching process by practicing with simulation training, laboratory studies and clinical applications. When the literature is examined, no study has been found about the virtual reality application related to cervical dilatation and effacement teaching. The study will be an original study as it focuses on the effect of virtual reality application in cervical dilatation and effacement education on students' satisfaction, self-confidence and anxiety levels. The findings of the study will shed light on the literature in terms of determining the effects of virtual reality application on students in cervical dilatation and effacement teaching. In addition, our project will be a pioneering study in terms of the use of virtual reality application in cervical dilatation and effacement teaching. Within the scope of the study, students will be examined in the focus of their satisfaction, self-confidence and anxiety levels. In this respect, the study will increase awareness in terms of revealing the effects of virtual reality application, which is one of the different simulation teaching methods in cervical dilatation and effacement teaching. Students will be examined as part of the study. In this way, students who have not received cervical dilatation and effacement training with virtual reality application before will have the opportunity to evaluate their exposure to this method.

Conditions

• Virtual Reality
• Educational

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	virtual reality group	Before the training, the Descriptive Information Form and the State and Trait Anxiety Inventory as a pre-test will be applied by face interview method. They will study for two hours. After the introduction and information, the lens and pupil distances of the virtual reality Glasses will be adjusted according to each student and students are expected to wear their vision. The application is the same for every student. Students will be introduced through the images projected to the computer simultaneously while in the application. Cervical dilation and effacement application will be monitored using virtual reality glasses. Next, the students will be asked to touch the woman's perineum with their hands to make her image transparent and we ask them to watch the cervix structures again. After the application, "Learning Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale" and "State and Trait Anxiety Inventory" will be applied as a post-test.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-15
• Primary completion: 2023-10-15
• Completion: 2023-12-20
• First posted: 2023-08-08
• Last updated: 2023-08-08