The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Nursing Students' Compliance

The Effect of Digital Storytelling on Nursing Students' Compliance With Isolation Precautions and Their Knowledge Levels: A Randomized Controlled Trial

This study investigated the effect of digital storytelling on nursing students' compliance with isolation precautions and their knowledge levels.This was a pretest-posttest open-label randomized controlled trial. The nursing department of the faculty of health sciences of a university in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. The sample consisted of 109 fourth-year nursing students divided into groups of experimental (n=66) and control (n=43). Data were collected using a demographic characteristics questionnaire, an Isolation Knowledge Test (IKT), a Questionnaire of Students' Opinions on Digital storytelling (QSODS), and the Scale of Compliance with Isolation Precautions (SKIP). The experimental group attended a digital storytelling activity (intervention), while the control group received an education based on the curriculum. The data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test, the Wilcoxon test, the Analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the Spearman correlation test.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being voluntary
• Having access to the Internet

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not attending the digital storytelling activity (intervention)
• Not taking the posttest