examining the impact of escape room-based assessment on nursing student's self-efficacy perception

Background: escape rooms are a new way to teach that makes students more interested and involved. using escape rooms in the classroom helps students understand and remember what they have learned.objectives: the goal of this research is to find out how an escape room-based cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) test affects the self-efficacy of nursing students in their second and third semesters.methods: a total of 36 second and third-semester undergraduate nursing students participated in this experimental study, which used a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: intervention (18 individuals) or control (18 individuals). data collection tools included a demographic questionnaire, a cpr checklist, and turner's cpr self-efficacy scale, which participants completed both before and after the intervention. participants in the intervention group split up into groups of three, each of which had a maximum of 40 minutes to unlock five locked boxes and leave the room. descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, independent and paired t-tests, and other statistical analyses were performed using spss version 16 software.results: prior to the intervention, the researchers found no significant difference in the self-efficacy perception ratings of students in the escape room group (117.94±25.68) and the mannequin group (118.20±39.76) (p > 0.05). the independent t-test, however, revealed a statistically significant difference between the two groups' mean post-intervention self-efficacy scores (p < 0.001). the escape room group's mean increase over the mannequin group was 18.56, yielding an effect size of 0.6. this suggests that students who took the escape room test saw a modest increase in their judgment of their own effectiveness.conclusion: according to the study's results, the escape room approach may be just as successful in raising perceptions of cpr self-efficacy as the conventional mannequin-based evaluation. in the end, active learning techniques might develop into a very successful teaching strategy in nursing school. we advise carrying out more research to examine the effects of escape room design principles, learning goals, and student profiles in order to guarantee the efficacy of this approach.