Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Not yet recruiting
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT05798429 |
| Other study ID # |
compassion in nursing |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Not yet recruiting |
| Phase |
N/A
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
June 2023 |
| Est. completion date |
January 2024 |
Study information
| Verified date |
March 2023 |
| Source |
Suleyman Demirel University |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
The aim of this thesis study is to determine the effect of compassion education on compassion
adequacy and moral sensitivity in nursing students. The sample of the descriptive study
consists of the first year nursing students studying at Süleyman Demirel University in the
2022-2023 academic year. The research will be carried out between October 2022 and September
2023. Research data will be collected from nursing students who volunteered to participate in
the research by using the Personal Information Form, which includes the demographic
characteristics of the students, the Compassion Adequacy Scale and the Modified Moral
Sensitivity Scale for Nursing Students.
Description:
Values have an important place in the nursing profession. In this context, it is necessary to
know the concept of compassion, which is among the values of health care.
Since the concept of Compassion-Compassion takes place in many disciplines, it has many
definitions. According to the Turkish Language Association, it is defined as 'the feeling of
sadness and pity for the bad situation that a person or another living thing encounters'
(TDK). In the Dictionary of Bioethics Terms, it is defined as "an emotion directed towards a
person or group (sometimes other than human beings) in a difficult or worse situation" .
When compassion is considered in the nursing profession, it is seen as an ethical obligation.
The ethical codes and declarations of the American Nurses Association and the International
Council of Nurses are also based on compassion .
While talking about care in Roach, he suggested that the concept of compassion is one of the
characteristics that a caregiver should have . Cummings and Bennett defined the features
required for the formation of a care culture with the concept of 6 Cs and emphasized that
compassion is important here .
Compassion can be learned and developed from the environment and conditions. The purpose of
education is to provide individuals with certain behaviors. Explaining compassion education
to students not only increases compassion towards other individuals, but also allows them to
have positive emotions, integrating the coping methods they have gained into their own lives,
increasing their feelings of compassion towards themselves.
The concept of compassion adequacy was defined by Lee and Seomun as "the capacity of a person
to successfully fulfill the responsibilities expected from him within the norms of society".
Nurses should not only have the care that meets the physical needs, but also have the
adequacy of the skills that meet the psychosocial needs. Moral sensitivity has an important
place in this holistic care provided by nurses.
Moral sensitivity is seeing the existence of ethical problems. It is also defined as the
personal capacity to identify ethical problems in specific events in the relationship between
patients and nurses. A nurse who does not have compassion for her patient cannot realize the
situation of the patient and does not have moral sensitivity.
Generation Z, who will be in the nursing profession in the coming years, will have weak
family ties, underdevelopment of their emotional intelligence, more narcissistic
personalities, love to work independently, have high individuality and are less loyal than
other generations. causes a low sense of compassion and therefore negatively affects their
moral sensitivities. Since the Z generation is usually an only child and prevents
socialization with people, their interpersonal relationships are weaker than other
generations.
In this context, although there are studies in the literature stating that compassion has an
important place in nursing education, no study has been found that examines the effect of
compassion education on nursing students' compassion efficacy.
The aim of this thesis is to examine the effect of compassion education on compassion
proficiency in nursing students.
