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Creative Drama in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Education

The Perceived Effect of Communication Skills Education Integrated With Creative Drama on Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Students' Empathy and Communication Skills to Develop With the Patient: A Randomized Controlled Study

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05208151
Enrollment
40
Registered
2022-01-26
Start date
2021-09-16
Completion date
2022-02-15
Last updated
2022-06-16

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Conditions

Educational Problems

Keywords

Education

Brief summary

Candidates who will provide the health services of the future should be ready to provide the safe and best health care services. In order to achieve this, it is recommended to use new training programs and methods that will provide similar situations to the working environment in the training of health workers. There are very few studies on the empathy and communication perceptions that creative drama education will create with the patient on physiotherapy and rehabilitation department students. Therefore, this study, the investigators aimed to investigate the perceived effect of communication skills training integrated with creative drama on physiotherapy and rehabilitation students' empathy and communication skills that will develop with the patient.

Interventions

Effective Communication with Creative Drama in Health Course will be given to students for 2 hours a week for 14 weeks.

Sponsors

Acibadem University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Being willing to take FZT 233 Effective Communication with Creative Drama in Health course in any of the fall or spring semesters.

Exclusion criteria

* Desire to take FZT 233 Effective Communication with Creative Drama in Health course at his own request. * Not wanting to participate in the study * Having a diagnosed psychological disorder and/or receiving psychological treatment

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Jefferson Doctor Empathy ScaleChange from Baseline Jefferson Doctor Empathy Scale at 14 weeksThe score range is 20-140, with higher average scores representing higher levels of empathy.
interpersonal communication questionnaireChange from Baseline interpersonal communication questionnaire at 14 weeksIt is stated that the first four items are related to communication anxiety and the last four items are related to communication trust. Each item has a 5-point Likert scale between 1 = strongly disagree 5 = strongly agree. High values indicate poor communication

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Visual analog scale-communicationChange from Baseline Visual analog scale at 14 weeksA visual analog scale between 0 and 10 will be used to evaluate the communication that may occur when students go into clinical practice at the beginning and end of the term and when they meet the patient. Zero will be set to none, 10 will be set to the maximum I can think of.
Visual analog scale-anxiety/stressChange from Baseline Visual analog scale at 14 weeksA visual analog scale between 0 and 10 will be used to evaluate the anxiety/stress that may occur when students go into clinical practice at the beginning and end of the term and when they meet the patient. Zero will be set to none, 10 will be set to the maximum I can think of.
Visual analog scale-motivationChange from Baseline Visual analog scale at 14 weeksA visual analog scale between 0 and 10 will be used to evaluate the motivation that may occur when students go into clinical practice at the beginning and end of the term and when they meet the patient. Zero will be set to none, 10 will be set to the maximum I can think of.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

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