A study in BMCMedEduc suggests the tutorless board game “SMARTriage” is a low-cost, portable alternative for training activities for disaster response in a pandemic situation as compared to tabletop activities.
]. A type of low-cost game that is portable enough and does not require internet connection or any electronic device to play is the board game.
To the best of our knowledge, although a number of games for disaster response training had been described in literature [], the use of board game in disaster response training specifically designed for healthcare students is rarely reported. One recently published board game for medical students’ disaster training was the “AFTERSHOCK” game designed by a group of German medical students. The aim of this board game is to train medical students to respond to the aftermath of an earthquake [].
To fill in this gap, we conducted a study on a newly developed disaster training board game with the primary objective of comparing the perception of interaction engagement and behavioral intention to use this board game as compared to the conventional tabletop exercise.In our institution, i.e., Universiti Malaysia Sarawak , disaster response training is part of our final year medical students’ emergency medicine rotation.
The board game was designed in the year 2020 and the study was conducted throughout in the entire year 2021 . The board game sessions were conducted in our clinical skills training room. The room was spacious enough to accommodate about 12—14 students performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on manikins at any one time. The tabletop exercise sessions were conducted in smaller tutorial rooms that allow students to break out into 3 smaller groups.
Phase 2 of the study was conducted using the psychometric instrument that we adapted from a previously validated instrument []. However, we differed from the previous instrument in that we included “behavioral intention” as our dependent variable. Furthermore, in the previous instrument, students’ engagement was further divided into two separate constructs: “skill engagement” and “interaction engagement” [].
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