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THE EFFECT OF CREATIVE DRAMA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANXIETY, EMPATHY AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN NURSING EDUCATION

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Psychiatric Nursing
Interventions
Behavioral: creative drama
Registration Number
NCT05166941
Lead Sponsor
Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University
Brief Summary

This work; The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the education program, which was created with the creative drama method based on Travelbee's "human-to-human relationship" theory, on the teaching and practice of mental health and psychiatric nursing course, on reducing the anxiety of students and improving their empathy and communication skills.

Detailed Description

In psychiatric nursing education; It is known that classical education methods are not sufficient to reduce students' anxiety and stigma, and to strengthen communication and empathy. For this reason, there is a need for training methods that will increase in-depth learning and communication skills and empathy in the field. In this research, the creative drama education method was arranged in accordance with the requirements of mental health and psychiatric nursing education and a training program was developed. Within the scope of the research, this training program was applied to the students who completed the theoretical education of psychiatric nursing. In order to measure the effectiveness of the research training program, it was planned in a quantitative design as a randomized controlled intervention study and in a mixed method in qualitative design in order to examine students' views on the method.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
26
Inclusion Criteria
  • Being residing in the city center of Ankara Volunteering to participate in the research, Being a 4th year nursing student and having completed the Mental Health and Diseases Nursing course, Lack of clinical experience in communicating with individuals with mental illness (Health Vocational High School graduate), Not having received training in communicating with individuals with mental illness before (students repeating a grade).

Not having been diagnosed with any mental illness No mental illness in first degree relatives

Exclusion Criteria
  • Living outside the city center of Ankara To fill in the research data collection forms incompletely, Not completing the creative drama education based on human-human relationship theory, Refusal to participate in the research Not meeting the criteria for inclusion in the research

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Experimental groupcreative dramaIt is a closed group in which the training program is implemented.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Qualitative method, (focus group interview)one weeks

It was applied to evaluate the opinions and suggestions of the experimental group about the education program.

The Numerical Rating Scale(NRS)Eight weeks

It was applied to the experimental and control groups to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of the training program.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Empathic Skill Scale - BEight weeks

It was used to determine the level of empathic skills of the students at the end of the training program.

State and Trait Anxiety ScaleEight weeks

It was used to determine the level of anxiety experienced by the students at the end of the education program.

Communication Skills Assessment ScaleEight weeks

It was used to determine the level of communication skills of the students at the end of the education program.

semi-structured questionnaireone weeks

It was applied to evaluate the opinions and suggestions of the experimental group about the education program

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

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Ankara, Turkey

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