The Study on the Attitude and Empathy of Nursing Students Towards the Elderly

Empathy Clinical Trial

Official title:

To Investigate the Effect of Situational Simulation Teaching Intervention on Nursing Students' Attitude and Empathy Towards the Elderly

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04921423
• Other study ID #: SMHIRB109012
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 4, 2021
• Est. completion date: June 25, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: June 2021
• Source: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The effect of situational simulation teaching intervention on the attitude and empathy of nursing students towards the elderly can be divided into two stages. The first stage is a cross-sectional study on the aging knowledge, attitude and empathy of nursing students. The second stage was the change of nursing students' attitude and empathy towards the elderly after the intervention of situational simulation teaching. The intervention measures included communication theory and skills, aging trend and knowledge, teaching plans for elderly nursing, activities for the elderly and visual experience, application and debriefing of empathy. This study collected and analyzed the data of aging knowledge, attitude and empathy towards the elderly at the end of the term and one month later, in order to explore the changes of attitude and empathy towards the elderly of nursing students after the intervention of situational simulation teaching.

Description:

Taiwan has entered an aging society and will enter a super aging society in 2026. With the increase of chronic diseases and aging of the elderly, they are gradually weakened. When they are unable to take care of themselves in the future, the demand for institutional care is increasing, and the future labor force is gradually decreasing. The training of care manpower is facing a test. The purpose of this study is to explore the aging knowledge, attitude towards the elderly and empathy of nursing students, and then to explore the change of students' aging knowledge, attitude towards the elderly and empathy after the intervention of simulated situational teaching course, and to explore the change of their willingness to join the elderly career in the future.

In the first stage, a cross-sectional study was conducted to extract 139 nursing science students from an Eastern college. In order to explore the aging knowledge, attitude and empathy towards the elderly, and future career involvement willingness of nursing students, Pearson product difference correlation analysis and Spearman grade correlation coefficient analysis were used to predict the relationship between variables, and multiple linear regression model was used to analyze the data. In the second stage of the study, the subjects were the same as those in the first stage. The experimental group and the control group were randomly assigned by drawing lots, with at least 51 participants. At the beginning, the end and one month after the course, we explored the change of students' ability to take care of the elderly and their willingness to devote to the elderly related career in the future. For inferential analysis, independent sample t-test and chi square test were used to analyze whether there were statistically significant differences in basic information, aging knowledge and attitude towards the elderly between the intervention group and the control group, and then generalized estimating equation (GEE) was used to check the effectiveness of situational simulation course after controlling relevant interference factors. It is expected that nursing students can experience the inconvenience of daily life of the elderly in the way of situational simulation, use empathy skills, carry out role play of teaching plan, and simulate the care behavior and empathy of the elderly in the clinical situation, so as to improve their willingness to choose jobs related to the elderly after graduation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 142
• Est. completion date: June 25, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: April 4, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years to 19 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Sophomores of Nursing College

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students with nursing practice experience

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attitude
• Empathy

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Situational simulation teaching
The intervention included communication theory and skills, aging trend and knowledge, teaching plans for elderly nursing, activities for the elderly and visual experience, application and debriefing of empathy.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	St. Mary's Medicine Nursing and Management College	Yilan	Sanxing Township

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

References & Publications (6)

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Lee KC, Yu CC, Hsieh PL, Li CC, Chao YC. Situated teaching improves empathy learning of the students in a BSN program: A quasi-experimental study. Nurse Educ Today. 2018 May;64:138-143. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2018.02.013. Epub 2018 Feb 13. — View Citation

Mennenga HA, Bassett S, Pasquariello L. Empathy Development Through Case Study and Simulation. Nurse Educ. 2016 May-Jun;41(3):139-42. doi: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000226. — View Citation

Zhang S, Liu YH, Zhang HF, Meng LN, Liu PX. Determinants of undergraduate nursing students' care willingness towards the elderly in China: Attitudes, gratitude and knowledge. Nurse Educ Today. 2016 Aug;43:28-33. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.04.021. Epub 2016 May 2. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The Aging knowledge	The Aging Knowledge Questionnaire contains 16 true or false questions, and each correct answer gets one point. The higher the score, the better the knowledge of aging. There is no subscale. The score of range from 0-16.	baseline, pre-intervention(T0)
Primary	The Aging knowledge	The Aging Knowledge Questionnaire contains 16 true or false questions, and each correct answer gets one point. The higher the score, the better the knowledge of aging. There is no subscale. The score of range from 0-16.	through study completion, an average of 4 months(T1)
Primary	The Aging knowledge	The Aging Knowledge Questionnaire contains 16 true or false questions, and each correct answer gets one point. The higher the score, the better the knowledge of aging. There is no subscale. The score of range from 0-16.	One month after the completion of the intervention(T2)
Primary	Old People Scale	There are 11 questions in the scale of attitude towards the elderly. The higher the score of Likerts Scale 1-7, the more negative the attitude towards the elderly. The score of range from 1-49.	baseline, pre-intervention(T0)
Primary	Old People Scale	There are 11 questions in the scale of attitude towards the elderly. The higher the score of Likerts Scale 1-7, the more negative the attitude towards the elderly.The score of range from 1-49.	through study completion, an average of 4 months(T1)
Primary	Old People Scale	There are 11 questions in the scale of attitude towards the elderly. The higher the score of Likerts Scale 1-7, the more negative the attitude towards the elderly.The score of range from 1-49.	One month after the completion of the intervention(T2)
Primary	Chinese Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy	There are 20 questions in the empathy scale consists of three sub-scales.The higher the score of Likerts Scale 1-7, the better the empathy. The score of range from 1-140.	baseline, pre-intervention(T0)
Primary	Chinese Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy	There are 20 questions in the empathy scale consists of three sub-scales.The higher the score of Likerts Scale 1-7, the better the empathy.The score of range from 1-140.	through study completion, an average of 4 months(T1)
Primary	Chinese Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy	There are 20 questions in the empathy scale consists of three sub-scales.The higher the score of Likerts Scale 1-7, the better the empathy.The score of range from 1-140.	One month after the completion of the intervention(T2)
Secondary	Clinical Situational Empathy Scales	There are two teaching plans of the Clinical Situation Empathy Scale, which has 4 subs-cales and total of 32 questions. The score of the Likerts Scale is 1-4, and the higher the score, the better the demonstration of empathy.The score of range from 1-128.	One month after the completion of the intervention(T2)