Video Gaming Improves Robotic Surgery Simulator Success

Completed

• Conditions: Robotic Surgery; Simulator
• Interventions: Other: Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success

• Registration Number: NCT05510960
• Lead Sponsor: Ege University

Brief Summary

Investigators aimed to investigate the effects of video game habits, duration of experience, and training in different surgical clinics on the success of robotic surgery simulators.

In this prospective, observational, comparative, and multi-clinic study, all participants played the Temple Run and Piano Tiles 2™ mobile games for one month after responding to a questionnaire including their sociodemographic characteristics, surgical experience, and past and current video game experience. At the end of the study period, participants experienced four different robotic surgery simulator tasks (Camera Targeting 1, Energy Switching 1, Ring \& Rail 2, Vertical Defect Suturing) in the da Vinci® Skills Simulator™. Additionally, sociodemographic data were statistically analyzed with mobile game scores, and 13 different performance scores were obtained from the simulator.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2021-10-30
• Study Completion: 2022-06-15
• Status Verified: 2022-08
• Study First Submitted: 2022-08-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-08-18
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-08-20
• Study First Posted: 2022-08-22
• Last Update Posted: 2022-08-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• To be a physician trained in Surgery in the Department of General Surgery. Pediatric Surgery and Urology.
• To be an assistant and specialist of the departments with robotic surgery experience.
• To be acquainted with laparoscopic surgery.
• Having played video games.

Exclusion Criteria

• Participation in our study is on a voluntary basis and we have no criteria other than physicians who want to leave the study voluntarily.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Urology residents	Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success	14 participants
General surgery residents	Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success	39 participants
Pediatric surgery residents	Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success	7 participants

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Robotic surgery simulator score of participants by video game experience	2 months	The effect of both previous and current video game on simulator results

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Determination of robotic surgery success among clinics according to simulator score	2 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ege University Hospital; 🇹🇷 İzmir, Turkey