Evaluating TESLA-G, a Gamified, Telegram-delivered, Quizzing Platform for Surgical Education in Medical Students: a Protocol for a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 50
- 主要终点
- Acceptability of intervention
研究概览
简要总结
Telegram Education for Surgical Learning and Application Gamified (TESLA-G) is an online, gamified quizzing platform for surgical education in medical students.The main objective of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of carrying out a full randomised control trial involving TESLA-G.
A pilot randomised controlled trial involving 50 undergraduate medical students will be conducted. They will be randomised into an intervention group and an active control group.
Feasibility will be determined by participant enrollment, retention rate, and quiz completion. Acceptability will be measured quantitatively via a post-intervention learner satisfaction survey and qualitatively via semi-structured interviews. Additionally, participants' scores for pre- and post-intervention knowledge tests will be compared.
详细描述
Online multiple-choice question (MCQ) quizzes are a well-established summative assessment tool in medical education. However, they suffer from high drop-out rates, attributed to waning user motivation over time. Various studies have shown that incorporation of gamified elements into learning can promote engagement and motivation.
In this pilot study, we will assess the feasibility and acceptability of a novel gamified quizzing platform, Telegram Education for Surgical Learning and Application Gamified (TESLA-G), to determine the possibility of a future larger-scale randomised controlled trial.
This study entails a randomised controlled trial with two arms, an intervention group (TESLA-G) and an active control group (conventional quizzing platform). 50 first to fifth year medical students from Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University will be randomised into the two arms with a 1:1 allocation ratio, stratified by year of study. Participants will use the assigned quizzing platform to attempt questions on a specific topic (endocrine surgery) over a period of two weeks.
At the end of the study period, several outcomes will be assessed. Feasibility will be determined by participant enrollment, retention rate, and quiz completion. Acceptability will be measured quantitatively via a post-intervention learner satisfaction survey and qualitatively via semi-structured interviews. Additionally, participants' scores for pre- and post-intervention knowledge tests will be compared.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
Participants will be subjected to partial blinding, where the type of platform (i.e. conventional quizzing platform or TESLA-G) will not be revealed to them. Instead, participants will be informed that one of the two platforms has been randomly assigned to them. In addition, all researchers involved in statistical analysis will be blinded as far as possible. Until the data has been fully analysed, they will not be able to identify the nature of each of the two groups.
A single, non-blinded researcher will be in charge of conveying information to participants. This is to ensure that important instructions on accessing and using the platforms, which are different for each platform, are sent to the participants. This researcher will also be the point-of-contact for the participants' platform-related queries throughout the study.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 100 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Currently enrolled in a full-time 5-year undergraduate programme in the medical school that leads to the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
- •Willing and able to provide consent for participating in the entire duration of the study including all pre- and post-study assessments
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Acceptability of intervention
时间窗: Post-intervention (14 days)
Acceptability of the intervention is measured quantitatively via a post-intervention learner satisfaction survey and qualitatively via semi-structured interviews.
Feasibility of intervention
时间窗: 14 days
The feasibility of the intervention will be evaluated quantitatively. These are the objectives: 1. Enrollment of 50 participants 2. Retention of at least 75% of the enrolled participants 3. Individual quiz completion rate of 80% Achieving all of these goals will prove that it is feasible to conduct a full-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT), while achieving two out of three goals will indicate that it is probably feasible. Achieving less than two goals will suggest that a full-scale RCT is not feasible with the current procedure.
次要结局
- Improvement of surgical knowledge(Pre and post-intervention (14 days))
- Participant satisfaction(Post-intervention (14 days))
- Retention of surgical knowledge(14 days after intervention)
研究者
Lorainne Tudor Car
Assistant Professor
Nanyang Technological University