The Impact of a New Pedagogical Intervention on Nursing Students’ Knowledge Acquisition in Simulation-Based Learning: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Table 3

Characteristics of the participants.

	Control	Intervention	t-test/χ^2
	n = 60	n = 53	p-values
Age (M ± SD)			0.355
Gender
Female (n %)	55 91.7	50 94.3	χ^2 0.306
Male (n %)	5 8.3	3 5.7	0.584
Work experience in health care before starting the nursing bachelor
Yes (n %)	47 78.3	45 84.9	χ^2 0.803
No (n %)	13 21.7	8 15.1	0.370
Years of work experience in health care
(M, ± SD)			0.038
Experience with critically ill patients
Yes (n %)	21 (36.2)	19 (37.3)	χ^2 0.13
No (n %)	37 (63.8)	32 (62.7)	0.910
Experience with simulation
Yes (n %)	6 (10)	5 (9.6)	χ^2 0.005
No (n %)	54 (90)	47 (90.4)	0.946

t-test.