Selection criteria
DILATION
Second- and fourth-year Obstetrics students with no prior training in vaginal touch in simulation models, enrolled in the academic disciplines taught by the researchers of this study, were eligible for inclusion in the research and recruited in the classrooms due to ease of access, opportunity for presenting the research and scheduling the date and time for data collection in the laboratory, for those who voluntarily agreed to participate.It is noted that vaginal touch simulation is not included in the list of academic disciplines targeted at the study population.The exclusion criterion corresponded to students that took part in the tests in the dilation models to compare the soft and hard consistency cervices.