An interventional study of interactive game in Menopause and Sleep, sponsored by Meryem Vural Şahin. Completed at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Open to female participants aged 40 Years to 60 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-01-06.
Sponsored by Meryem Vural Şahin · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
This study will present an innovative approach for sleep hygiene education in this age group by developing an interactive game-based education model for menopausal women. Gamification methods enable education to be made more interactive, engaging and fun, which can improve the learning process. Considering the lack of such an application in the literature, this study is thought to fill a gap both in Turkey and worldwide. While health education is usually presented with classical methods, interactive gamification methods have attracted more attention in recent years. This study is thought to be one of the first to show how gamification can be used in menopausal women. In addition, the findings of the study may show that improving sleep hygiene in the menopausal period may provide positive effects not only on sleep quality, but also on menopausal symptoms and overall quality of life. Therefore, it is thought that the study may provide critical data in both symptom management and women's health. It is thought that this study will pioneer the development of new education and counselling models in the field of midwifery. Especially midwives can take a more effective role in symptom management by using such interactive trainings for women in menopausal period. Thus, it is thought that an innovative approach will be brought to midwifery education and practices.
Sleep hygiene training requires the acquisition and practice of specific behaviours, but is typically delivered in a single meeting with a practitioner. Such formats may not encourage participation or provide opportunities to review and practice behaviours. An alternative format, game-based learning, provides interaction with activities that have a clear set of objectives, constraints and rules. The digital game creates an individual communication environment that incorporates the digitality, interactivity, virtuality, variability, modularity features of the new communication environment and incorporates these features into the act of playing games. Compared to traditional education, game-based education provides situated learning as it can mimic the real world in which the learner is situated. In educational research, it is emphasised that the game factor increases motivation. In a meta-analysis of 22 studies on video game-based interventions targeting healthy adults older than 44 years, it was found that video game-based interventions had positive effects on objectively measured physical and social health.
Midwives play a critical role in meeting basic human needs and supporting the independence of individuals. One of the most basic needs of menopausal women is the need for sleep. However, in the national and international literature, there is no interactive game-supported web-based sleep hygiene training application for menopausal women. This situation reveals the need to develop an innovative approach in which midwives can provide more effective education and counselling in symptom management. Interactive game-based education was planned to provide a new and effective method to support women's health by increasing knowledge about sleep hygiene in menopausal women and to strengthen the role of midwives in this process.
Meryem Vural Şahin is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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This group will receive online sleep hygiene training for 4 weeks. The training will be given one day a week and last 30 minutes. is foreseen. After each training, an interactive sleep hygiene game will be shared online. A total of 4 interactive sleep hygiene games will be shared. The total duration of a game will not exceed 20 minutes.
Behavioral: interactive game
this group will be given online sleep hygiene training once a week for a total of 4 weeks. The duration of each training will not exceed 30 minutes.
Interactive game supported sleep hygiene will be prepared by researchers. The game will be shared after each sleep hygiene training. The intervention is planned as 4 trainings and 4 games in total.
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
The total score varies between 0-21. A total score higher than 5 indicates 'poor sleep quality'.
Time frame: 1 month after the training and interactive game application
Menopause Symptoms Assessment Scale (MSAS)
The lowest score of 0 (zero) and the highest score of 44 (forty-four) can be obtained from the MSAS. The increase in the total number of points of the scale reveals an increase in the severity of menopausal symptoms in women experiencing menopausal symptoms.
Time frame: 1 month after the training and interactive game
Menopause Specific Quality of Life Scale (MSQOL)
The lowest score that can be obtained from the total scale is '0' and the highest score (29X6) is 154.
Time frame: 1 month after the training and interactive game application
Plan to share: No
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