Impact of Prior Video Game Exposure Combined With a Video Game Warm-Up on Laparoscopic Simulation Performance: A Quasi-Experimental Study Among Medical Students.
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 44
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Better score in participants with the intervention of the warm up
Study Overview
Brief Summary
"In surgical practice, alternative training methods are being investigated to enhance laparoscopic skills. The potential correlation between video game playing and technical performance improvements raises the question of whether a brief video game exposure immediately before simulated surgical practice can yield tangible benefits in required tasks. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the impact of prior video game exposure on laparoscopic simulation performance among medical students and first-year residents. This is an experimental, cross-sectional study with post-intervention assessment, conducted at the University of Passo Fundo with 44 undergraduate medical students who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria, following approval by the UPF Research Ethics Committee. This project was developed through a literature review in electronic databases: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Virtual Health Library (BVS), PubMed, UpToDate, and Google Scholar. The most relevant data were then compiled to guide the subsequent data collection."
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Medical students across all training levels
- •Availability to perform all study activities
Exclusion Criteria
- •Prior participation in the surgical field during any laparoscopic procedure
- •Contraindications to simulator use (previous hand surgery, uncorrected visual impairment, or epilepsy)
Arms & Interventions
Chronic gamers with video game warm-up group
Chronic gamers defined by criteria of the study with video game warm up before using the surgical simulator
Intervention: Surgical Simulator (Behavioral)
Chronic gamers without video game warm-up group
Chronic gamers defined by criteria of the study without video game warm up before using the surgical simulator
Intervention: Surgical Simulator (Behavioral)
Chronic gamers with video game warm-up group
Chronic gamers defined by criteria of the study with video game warm up before using the surgical simulator
Intervention: 10 minute exercice of videogame (Other)
Non chronic gamers with video game warm-up group
Non chronic gamers defined by criteria of the study with video game warm up before using the surgical simulator
Intervention: Surgical Simulator (Behavioral)
Non chronic gamers with video game warm-up group
Non chronic gamers defined by criteria of the study with video game warm up before using the surgical simulator
Intervention: 10 minute exercice of videogame (Other)
Non chronic gamers without video game warm-up group
Non chronic gamers defined by criteria of the study without video game warm up before using the surgical simulator
Intervention: Surgical Simulator (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Better score in participants with the intervention of the warm up
Time Frame: From the enrollment to the end of the intervention
The score was defined by the evaluation of the videos of the participants using the simulator, made by two different and double blinded surgeons.
Better abilities in surgical simulators by chronic video game users
Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of the interventions.
To define chronic video gamers we made and used a questionnaire, that questioned about frequency, types of videogame, types of platforms now and during the adolescence period. And the abilities on the surgical simulators were determined by the evaluation of the two surgeons as was said in the other item.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Isadora Dominiak da Silveira
Medical Student
Universidade de Passo Fundo