Experimental Study and Training for Tanzanian Students and Health Professionals With a New Simulator for Manual Neonatal Ventilation

The goal of this clinical trial is to build capacity and assess the teaching effectiveness of a new simulator for manual neonatal ventilation in third-year nursing and clinical officer students, as well as healthcare professionals from the neonatology, gynecology, and pediatric departments.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does the high-fidelity active setup of the simulator improve the percentage of target pressure achieved and the mean ventilation frequency compared to other configurations?
• How do different simulator configurations affect the training outcomes of unexperienced and experienced personnel, based on objective evaluations by expert clinicians and knowledge surveys?
• What is the self-reported usability and perceived usefulness of the different simulator configurations among the trainees? Researchers will compare a medium-fidelity passive setup, a high-fidelity passive setup with mechanical feedback, and a high-fidelity active setup with both mechanical and sensor feedback to see if the high-fidelity active configuration results in significantly higher clinical performance scores and better achievement of ventilation targets.

Participants will:

• Attend theoretical frontal lectures covering manual emergency ventilation procedures and medical simulation.
• Complete pre-training and post-training surveys to assess baseline knowledge, evaluate acquired skills, and report on the simulator's usability.
• Participate in hands-on simulator training, practicing the clinical procedure (positioning the newborn, positioning the mask, and ventilating) three times.
• Undergo a final simulation session for evaluation, where performance is objectively scored by a tutor and automatically recorded by the simulator's sensors.