Association between game metrics in a simulation game and nursing students’ surgical nursing knowledge – a quasi-experimental study

Table 3 Association between the mean score and mean playing time and the surgical nursing knowledge

	SNK total			SNK 1 Blood transfusion of surgical patient			SNK 2 Postoperative haemorrhage and hypovolemia
	Estimate^a	s.e.	p.^b	Estimate^a	s.e.	p. ^b	Estimate^a	s.e.	p. ^b
Mean score	0.03364	0.01241	0.0072	0.002064	0.004550	0.6505	0.005360	0.004244	0.2077
Mean playing time	0.002033	0.002134	0.3415	−0.00004	0.000809	0.9580	0.000128	0.000741	0.8635
	SNK 3 Preoperative assessment of an orthopaedic surgery patient			SNK 4 Postoperative assessment peripheral artery bypass surgery patient			SNK 5 Pain management of surgical patient
	Estimate^a	s.e.	p. ^b	Estimate^a	s.e.	p. ^b	Estimate^a	s.e.	p. ^b
Mean score	0.001951	0.004165	0.6398	0.006479	0.005449	0.2355	0.01676	0.005600	0.0030
Mean playing time	0.000843	0.000729	0.2490	−0.00048	0.000964	0.6188	0.001393	0.000993	0.1619
	SNK 6 Identification of disorders of vital signs according to NEWS in postoperative nursing
	Estimate^a	s.e.	p. ^b
Mean score	0.007711	0.005101	0.1318
Mean playing time	0.000357	0.000895	0.6904

^aEstimates are regression slopes. Estimates are adjusted by educational background, work experience in social and health services and surgical nursing knowledge (pre-test)
^bp < .05 was considered significant

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