Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercises and Anxiety

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Anxiety State; Progressive Muscle Relaxation; Nursing Students

• Registration Number: NCT06806878
• Lead Sponsor: Necmettin Erbakan University

Brief Summary

Nursing practice education consists of two parts: laboratory applications aiming at skill acquisition of students and the application part experienced on real patients. Student nurses gain their first skills in laboratory applications accompanied by an instructor. This experience may increase the anxiety levels of nursing students due to reasons such as practising for the first time, hesitating to practice under the supervision of an instructor, and fear of making mistakes. If students learn intramuscular injection, which is one of the skill applications that is a part of care, which is the most important power of nursing, with increased anxiety levels, it may cause a decrease in clinical competence and a decrease in the quality of health care they will provide in the future. Various methods have been tried for nursing students' anxiety levels to be above the optimum level in laboratory applications and it has been observed that anxiety levels have decreased. One of these methods is progressive muscle relaxation exercises. In this study, it is planned to apply progressive muscle relaxation exercises in order to examine the effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercises on the success and anxiety of nursing students related to intramuscular injection practice.

Materials and Method: In this pre-test-post-test randomised controlled study planned to be conducted in Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing skill laboratories, consent will be obtained from the 1st year nursing students. The students will fill in the descriptive characteristics form, Visual Anxiety Scale and IM injection success test prepared by reviewing the literature before and after intramuscular injection. After the completion of the forms, 'progressive muscle relaxation exercises' will be applied to the students by the researcher for about 30 minutes. Students who volunteered to participate in the study and who took the 'Fundamentals of Nursing' course for the first time will be included in the study.

Detailed Description

In this pre-test-post-test randomised controlled study planned to be conducted in Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing skill laboratories, consent will be obtained from the 1st year nursing students. The students will fill in the descriptive characteristics form, Visual Anxiety Scale and IM injection success test prepared by reviewing the literature before and after intramuscular injection. After the completion of the forms, 'progressive muscle relaxation exercises' will be applied to the students by the researcher for about 30 minutes. Students who volunteered to participate in the study and who took the 'Fundamentals of Nursing' course for the first time will be included in the study.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2025-01-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-01-28
• Study First Posted: 2025-02-04
• Study Start: 2025-03-03
• Primary Completion: 2025-03-04
• Study Completion: 2025-03-04
• Status Verified: 2025-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-04-11
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 141

Inclusion Criteria

• Students who volunteered to participate in the study
• took the 'Fundamentals of Nursing' lesson for the first time

Exclusion Criteria

• Students who are foreign nationals,
• who have taken the course more than once due to absenteeism or failure,
• who have come with horizontal or vertical transfer,
• who are graduates of Health Vocational High School,
• who have previous injection experience
• who have been diagnosed with anxiety,
• students who do not want to participate in the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Students anxiety	This scale will be filled out by students before starting the IM injection skill practice and within 10 minutes after the IM practice is completed.	Students anxiety level will be evaluated by using the "visual anxiety scale" consisting of 100 mm horizontal lines without numbers. At one end of the line is "No Anxiety" and at the other end is "Unbearable Anxiety". The student is expected to put a mark on this line at the point that matches the level of their anxiety. The distance from the lowest level to the student's mark is measured with a ruler and the numerical value of the anxiety level is obtained in cm or mm.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intramuscular Injection Success Test	this test will be answered before and within 10 minutes after im injection implementation	Intramuscular Injection Success Test is a test consisting 21 multiple choice question. Each correct answer is considered as "1" point, unanswered questions are not scored. Test scores are evaluated out of a total of 21 points.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Necmettin Erbakan University; 🇹🇷 Meram, Turkey