NCT07073222

An Escape Room for Nursing Students Taking Pharmacology Classes

Active, enrolled NA Last updated 18 July 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Escape room game in Nursing Student in 32 participants. Participants enrolled and being followed up; not accepting new ones.

Timeline

6 January 2025

Primary endpoint
10 February 2025

30 July 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University
Phase	NA
Status	Active, enrolled
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	32
Start date	6 January 2025
Primary completion	10 February 2025
Estimated completion	30 July 2025
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Escape room game

Conditions studied

• Nursing Student — all drugs for Nursing Student →
• Pharmacology — all drugs for Pharmacology →

Sponsor

Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Nursing Student or Pharmacology. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The study was planned as a pre-test-post-test single-group, quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effects of the education provided with the escape room game on the level of autonomic nervous system drug knowledge and perceptions of the game experience in nursing students taking the Pharmacology course. The sample of the study will consist of students enrolled in the Nursing Pharmacology course at the Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing in the 2024-2025 academic year, who meet the research criteria and agree to participate in the study. The study will be conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the necessary materials for the game development and evaluation process will be prepared and the content validity study of these materials will be conducted. In the second stage, the escape room game will be applied and data will be collected. The data will be collected with the "Descriptive Characteristics Form" and the "Autonomic Nervous System Drug Knowledge Test" (pre-test) before the escape room game, and with the "Autonomic Nervous System Drug Knowledge Test" (post-test) and the "Game Playing Experience Scale" after the game. The analysis of the data will be completed by transferring it to the IBM SPSS Statistics 23 program.

H1a = There is a difference between the mean scores of the autonomic nervous system knowledge test of the students who participated in the escape room game before and after the game.

H1b = There is no difference between the mean scores of the autonomic nervous system knowledge test of the students who participated in the escape room game before and after the game

Publications & conference data

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

1. The use of an escape room-based learning strategy to enhance pharmacology knowledge among nursing students.
   Aktaş N, Sazak Y. · · 2025 · PMID 41476208 · DOI 10.1186/s12912-025-04270-8