NCT04076163

About the Efficacy of a Serious Game in Critical Appraisal

Completed NA Last updated 3 September 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing serious game in Healthy Students in 48 participants. Completed in 1 July 2019.

Timeline

2 September 2017

Primary endpoint
30 June 2019

1 July 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	mona mlika
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	48
Start date	2 September 2017
Primary completion	30 June 2019
Estimated completion	1 July 2019
Sites	1 location across Tunisia

Drugs / interventions tested

• serious game

Conditions studied

• Healthy Students — all drugs for Healthy Students →

Sponsor

mona mlika

Who can join

Adults 20 to 23, any sex, with Healthy Students. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Background: serious games have been reported as valuable method of learning since a decade. Even if their evident efficiency hasn't been always reported, their influence on the learners' motivation has become consensual. The authors aim to assess the efficacy of using serious games to teach critical appraisal practice to medical students in comparison to face-to-face learning methods.

Material and methods: the authors will perform a cluster randomised controlled trial including third-year medical students. Both groups will receive the same initial learning about elementary principals of evidence-based-medicine. Then, the control group will perform a critical appraisal of a case report and a recommendation article guided by a checklist and the intervention group performed a critical appraisal of the same manuscripts using a home-made serious game. Both groups will be invited to fulfil a multiple-choice-question test and a satisfaction likert-scale questionnaire.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. About the efficacy of a serious game in critical appraisal learning: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
   Mlika M, Dziri C, Mezni F. · · 2022 · PMID 36571725