Development of Virtual Reality for Nursing Students: Electroconvulsive Therapy

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Electroconvulsive Therapy; Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

• Registration Number: NCT06980831
• Lead Sponsor: Mae Fah Luang University

Brief Summary

Project: "Development of virtual reality for nursing students: ECT"

For this project the researchers will adapte 'health belief model' as a core concept for developing knowledge, attitude and skills of nursing students to take care of psychiatric patients with ECT. For their practice, the participants will be taught to take care of patients with ECT into 3 phases: before, during, and after ECT.

The researchers believe that this VR technology will help Thai-nursing students better understand and know how to take care of patients with ECT.

This project will consist of two phase. phase I: developing VR- ECT technology for nursing students. we will pilot test VR-ECT in Nursing students by randomizing nursing students volunteers into two groups: an experimental group and waitlist control group (N = 140). Knowledge, attitude and satisfaction and self-confidence will be measured at baseline (day 1), week 8 after intervention complete

Detailed Description

Population: Thai nursing students who are between 18-24 years old who are studying in bachalor of Nursing, Thailand.

Sample:

Inclusion criteria: the researchers will include bachelor nursing students who 1) are between 18-24 year of age; 2) are proficient in Thai; 3) are never study in ECT class; and 4) volunteer.

Exclusion criteria: the researchers will exclude nursing students if they have 1) current presence of physical or mental condition such as learning disorders, and psychiatric disorders, all of which make full participation in all aspects of this study questionable; 2) already studies and had experienced with ECT nursing care.

Phase I: To develop the ECT virtual reality for nursing students

* 20 nursing students for VR-testing

Phase II: To evaluate the effects of VR-ECT for nursing students on knowledge, attitude, satisfaction and self-confidence among Thai-nursing students.

* Quantitative sample: 140 nursing students randomized to two groups to test the effectiveness and efficacy of the VR-ECT.

* Qualitative sample: 20 nursing students for in-depth interview and focus group to get the nursing students' experience and perception of VR-ECT.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2025-01-16
• Status Verified: 2025-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-05-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-05-12
• Study First Posted: 2025-05-20
• Last Update Posted: 2025-05-20
• Study Start: 2025-06-01
• Primary Completion: 2026-06-30
• Study Completion: 2026-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 140

Inclusion Criteria

• the researchers will include Thai-nursing students who 1) are between 18 and 24 years of age; 2) are proficient in Thai; 3) volunteer

Exclusion Criteria

• the researchers will exclude Thai nursing students who 1) current presence of physical or mental conditions such as learning disorders and psychiatric disorders, all of which make full participation in all aspects of this study questionable; 2) had already studied in ECT or had experienced for taking care patients with ECT.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
VR-ECT knowledge (Thai version)	Day 1 -8 wk after intervention complete	the researchers will adapt the knowledge for ECT nursing by Pruge and Vichai (2022) to measure the knowledge of nursing students for ECT nursing including the indication for ECT, Action and Side Effects, steps for ECT nursing, and adverse effect of ECT. The instrument including 18 items, each item has two options for yes (1 score) and no (o score).
VR-ECT attitude (Thai -version)	Day 1 - 8 week after intervention completed	The researcher adapted questions developed by Pomporn Thongmuang (16). The purpose of this assessment was to measure nursing students' attitudes towards electrotherapy. It consists of 10 questions. The highest score indicates a positive attitude towards electroconvulsive therapy.
VR-ECT Satisfaction (Thai-version)	Day 1 - 8 week after intervention completed	For the satisfaction on using VR-ECT technology (Satisfaction_VR-ECT) by Wanthana Pankamdee (17). The researcher will adapt this instrument based on the University students in Thailand context. The items including 40 items related with satisfaction of VR-ECT technology as Likert scale (1=dissatisfied to 5=very satisified). The high score indicates the high level of satisfaction.