The Effect of Taboo Game Adapted for Anatomy Lesson on Exam Anxiety and Academic Achievement in Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Study

According to the subject distribution; It was played for 1 hour, once a week for 14 weeks. Implemented session attendance checklists under lecturer supervision. Introduction to Anatomy 20 cards, 20 cards, the most widely used medical terms, the motion system is 20 cards, and the Extremity bones of the axial skeleton the bones of 40 cards, 25 cards joint system, circulatory system, the heart and the arterial system 40, card, 40 the venous circulation and the lymphatic system, card system Nov 40, card, digestive system 40, card, respiratory system 40, card, 40 of the urinary system, card, reproductive system 40, card, endocrine system 40, card, Central nervous system 40 cards with Peripheral nervous system, sensory organs, so it will be a total of 30 card, 467 card has been prepared. The students of the experimental group will be asked to follow the following rules by playing the taboo game created with that topic every week after the lesson: 1. A person from the research team comes with a set of playing cards in his hand and starts the game. 2. Students have one minute to guess as many terms as possible. 3. Another person who is on the research team is next to the student to make sure that he does not use the words “taboo” and to save time. 4. A student cannot skip terms right away when defining words. If the student is experiencing a certain difficulty, someone from the team can help. The student can move to the next one only after the allotted time (~ 10-15 seconds). Anatomy course is a course that is taught for 14 weeks (One Semester) and a different topic is explained every week. Below is the 14-week plan: 1. Introduction to anatomy, the most used medical terms 2. Introduction to the movement system, axial skeletal bones 3. Extremity bones, Joint system 4. Circulatory system, heart and arterial system 5. Venous circulation, lymphatic system 6. Musculature 7. The digestive System and its organs 8. Respiratory system and organs 9. Urinary System and organs 10. Female and male reproductive system and organs 11. Endocrine System 12. Central nervous system 13. Peripheral nervous system 14. Sensory organs and Literature reading Both the control group (Konya-Nursing 1. Class) as well as the experimental group (Seydisehir-Nursing 1. Class) takes the course with the same credit from the same instructor. Before the taboo game, a sociodemographic information form and an exam anxiety inventory will be applied to both groups. Together with the experimental group, the taboo game prepared on this topic will be played after the topic covered every week. The cards prepared about the subject are written next to each subject. after the end of the 14-week fall semester, the exam anxiety inventory will be used again and the final grades of the anatomy course will be reviewed.