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

Psychiatric Nursing Clinical Trial

Official title:

In Psychiatric Nursing Education; The Effect of Creative Drama Method Based on Travelbee's "Human to Human Relationship" Theory on Developing Anxiety, Empathy and Communication Skills

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05166941
• Other study ID #: Ankara YBU-SBF-GU-01
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 27, 2021
• Est. completion date: October 20, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: December 2021
• Source: Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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 information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 26
• Est. completion date: October 20, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: July 20, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 21 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety Disorders
• Psychiatric Nursing

Intervention

Behavioral:
• creative drama
In the training program, a total of six games were played about the experiences of psychiatric patients. The program was designed to be two game per week for four weeks.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University	Ankara

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The Numerical Rating Scale(NRS)	It was applied to the experimental and control groups to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of the training program.	Eight weeks
Primary	Qualitative method, (focus group interview)	It was applied to evaluate the opinions and suggestions of the experimental group about the education program.	one weeks
Secondary	Empathic Skill Scale - B	It was used to determine the level of empathic skills of the students at the end of the training program.	Eight weeks
Secondary	Communication Skills Assessment Scale	It was used to determine the level of communication skills of the students at the end of the education program.	Eight weeks
Secondary	State and Trait Anxiety Scale	It was used to determine the level of anxiety experienced by the students at the end of the education program.	Eight weeks
Secondary	semi-structured questionnaire	It was applied to evaluate the opinions and suggestions of the experimental group about the education program	one weeks