Developing Nursing Students' Intercultural Sensitivity Levels

Education Clinical Trial

Official title:

Developing Nursing Students' Intercultural Sensitivity Levels: A Randomized Controlled Experimental Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05941026
• Other study ID #: Intercultural Sensitivity
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: July 2023
• Source: Aydin Adnan Menderes University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study; This is a randomized controlled experimental type study designed to improve the intercultural sensitivity levels of nursing students.

Description:

Cultural sensitivity is extremely important for healthcare professionals. Understanding cultural differences can help build a trusting relationship between patients and healthcare professionals. This increases patient satisfaction and improves the quality of health services.

This work; This is a randomized controlled experimental type study designed to improve the intercultural sensitivity levels of nursing students.

Intercultural sensitivity training does not affect the intercultural sensitivity level of nursing students.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 117
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: October 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being a student of Aydin Adnan Menderes University Nursing Department

• Having successfully completed the basic practical courses of the first three classes

• Being enrolled in one of the Public Health Nursing or Mental Health and Diseases Nursing courses from the fourth year

• Volunteer to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not completing the training sessions of the research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Education
• Hypersensitivity
• Nursing Caries

Intervention

Other:
• Structured education
The educational content of the research was created by the researcher in line with the literature and expert opinions and covers the following topics. Educational subjects Culture and Concepts Related to Culture Culture/Cultural Characteristics and Cultural Elements in Terms of Social Structure Cultural Factors Affecting Health and Disease Concepts and Practices Related to the Field of Study The training is an online training and continued via video conference, and a session invitation was sent to the participants before each session. In addition, after the training, brochures containing the training topics of each week were prepared and delivered to the participants. The trainings were conducted by the researcher in a total of four sessions (each session 20 minutes) once a week during the training process. During the training, the questions of the participants were answered.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Aydin Adnan Menderes University Institute of Health Sciences Department of Public Health Nursing	Aydin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Aydin Adnan Menderes University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Intercultural Sensitivity Scale and Personel Questions	The scale was developed by Chen and Starosta and was adapted to Turkish in 2010. It consists of twenty-four items and includes five emotional dimensions necessary to measure intercultural sensitivity. The scale has five dimensions: responsibility in communication, respect for cultural differences, self-confidence in communication, enjoying communication, and being careful in communication. The scale has a 5-point Likert-type rating. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of sensitivity increases. The Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was determined as 0.90.	Pre-test (Before the training)
Primary	Intercultural Sensitivity Scale	The scale was developed by Chen and Starosta and was adapted to Turkish in 2010. It consists of twenty-four items and includes five emotional dimensions necessary to measure intercultural sensitivity. The scale has five dimensions: responsibility in communication, respect for cultural differences, self-confidence in communication, enjoying communication, and being careful in communication. The scale has a 5-point Likert-type rating. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of sensitivity increases. The Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was determined as 0.90.	four weeks after the pre-test (at the end of the training)
Primary	Intercultural Sensitivity Scale	The scale was developed by Chen and Starosta and was adapted to Turkish in 2010. It consists of twenty-four items and includes five emotional dimensions necessary to measure intercultural sensitivity. The scale has five dimensions: responsibility in communication, respect for cultural differences, self-confidence in communication, enjoying communication, and being careful in communication. The scale has a 5-point Likert-type rating. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of sensitivity increases. The Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was determined as 0.90.	eight weeks after the pre-test (and one month after the training)