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

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

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05166941
Enrollment
26
Registered
2021-12-22
Start date
2021-05-27
Completion date
2021-10-20
Last updated
2021-12-22

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Conditions

Psychiatric Nursing

Keywords

psychiatric nursing ,creative drama, empathy, Anxiety

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALcreative 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.

Sponsors

Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Intervention model description

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.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
21 Years to 24 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

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

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
The Numerical Rating Scale(NRS)Eight weeksIt was applied to the experimental and control groups to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of the training program.
Qualitative method, (focus group interview)one weeksIt was applied to evaluate the opinions and suggestions of the experimental group about the education program.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Empathic Skill Scale - BEight weeksIt was used to determine the level of empathic skills of the students at the end of the training program.
Communication Skills Assessment ScaleEight weeksIt was used to determine the level of communication skills of the students at the end of the education program.
State and Trait Anxiety ScaleEight weeksIt was used to determine the level of anxiety experienced by the students at the end of the education program.
semi-structured questionnaireone weeksIt was applied to evaluate the opinions and suggestions of the experimental group about the education program

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026