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CompletedNCT04977921EDUUpdated Jul 27, 2021

Lab Skills Nursing Education Into Effective Clinical Practice During COVID-19: Elsevier Clinical Skill Platform

An interventional study of lab session in Educational Problems, sponsored by Beni-Suef University. Completed at 1 site in Saudi Arabia. Open to female participants aged 20 Years to 22 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-07-27.

Sponsored by Beni-Suef University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 6 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jan 2021, registered Jul 2021).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
20 Years to 22 Years
Sex
Female
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Study summary

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing an Elsevier clinical skill platform in clinical nursing education.

1.2. Research hypotheses

  1. Nursing students who assign for the critical care clinical course modules using Elsevier clinical skill platform obtain a higher score in the OSCE than who receive clinical Lab session on campus.
  2. Nursing students who utilize an Elsevier clinical skill are more satisfied in the clinical education journey.
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A quasi-experimental, two groups, pre-posttest study was carried out in Nursing college, King Khalid University, Kingdome of Saudi Arabia.

2.2 Instruments

  1. Pre-posttest per skill was conducted for both group the Elsevier clinical skill group (ECS Group) and traditional Clinical Lab Session group (CLS Group), to assess the students' knowledge level before and after receiving each scheduled Lab Module.
  2. Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE): The summative OSCE included practical stations with an associated written paper for each skill examined. For the practical station, Students must pass the practical station (100%), as well as the relevant written station (70%) to achieve a pass in that scope of practice skill according to Exam policy \& Procedure.
  3. Students' perception of Usability and Learning of Elsevier Clinical Skill: included 8 questions developed by Rowe et al, 2017 categorized into two main themes: 1st theme is relevant to the Usability of the platform (4 items) and 2nd theme reflected the Learning enhancement while using the platform (4 items). Each item was scored on a three-point Likert scale as follows: Strongly agree or agree (3), Neither agree nor disagree (2) and Strongly disagree or disagree (1). The overall perceptions of students with both online and traditional lab experiences included and score ranged between (1-3) as 1= Much better than or better than, 2= About the same as 2, Much worse than or not as good as 3

2.3 Participants: A convenience sample of all students enrolled in the critical care nursing course (n=52) were divided into two groups and random selection was implemented by the registration office following the inclusion criteria for all students who were enrolled first time receive critical care nursing course. Therefore, two students were withdrawn at the beginning of the course. The first group represented the control group the Clinical Lab session (25 students), whilst the second group represented the intervention group the Elsevier clinical skill (25 students).

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Conditions studied

  • Educational Problems

Keywords

  • Clinical lab session
  • Elsiever clinical skill
  • traditional lab session
  • students satisfaction
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In context

Lead sponsor

Beni-Suef University is the lead sponsor of 333 studies on the registry; 116 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years to 22 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • Must be passed all prerequisite nursing courses

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unwilling to participate
  • Request to use traditional lab session
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
50 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Elsiever clinical skill platform

    Other: lab session

Interventions

  • Otherlab session

    assign students to clinical modules for study the clinical lab scope of practice

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Improve student's performance per clinical lab session

    1. Pre-posttest per skill was conducted for both group the Elsevier clinical skill group (ECS Group) and traditional Clinical Lab Session group (CLS Group), to assess the students' knowledge level before and after receiving each scheduled Lab Module.

    Time frame: 13 lab session-13 weeks

  2. evaluate effectiveness of teaching pedagogy

    2. Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE): The summative OSCE included practical stations with an associated written paper for each skill examined. For the practical station, Students must pass the practical station (100%), as well as the relevant written station (70%) to achieve a pass in that scope of practice skill according to Exam policy \& Procedure.

    Time frame: Week 14

Secondary outcomes

  1. assess students' perception of Usability and Learning of Elsevier Clinical Skill:

    Included 8 questions 1st theme is relevant to the Usability of the platform (4 items) and 2nd theme reflected the Learning enhancement while using the platform (4 items). Each item was scored on a three-point Likert scale as follows: Strongly agree or agree (3), Neither agree nor disagree (2) and strongly disagree or disagree (1). The overall perceptions of students with both online and traditional lab experiences included and score ranged between (1-3) as 1= Much better than or better than, 2= About the same as 2, Much worse than or not as good as 3

    Time frame: up to 15 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Nursing Faculty
    Abha, Saudi Arabia
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — data analysis completed July writing paper on August publish paper on September

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 27, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04977921
Lead sponsor
Beni-Suef University
Responsible party
Magda Bayoumi (Lecturer, Beni-Suef University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jul 27, 2021
Start date
Jan 17, 2021
Primary completion
May 15, 2021
Completion
May 30, 2021
Last update
Jul 27, 2021

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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