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The Effect of Peer Counseling on Nursing Image

The Effect of Peer Counseling Initiative Applied to First Year Nursing Students in the Orientation Process on Their Perception of Nursing Image

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06195215
Acronym
peer
Enrollment
108
Registered
2024-01-08
Start date
2024-01-01
Completion date
2024-03-01
Last updated
2024-04-09

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Conditions

Nursing

Keywords

nursing image, nursing student, orientation, peer education

Brief summary

The aim of this randomised controlled study was to examine the effect of peer counselling on first-year nursing students' perceptions of nursing image in orientation processes.The H0 hypothesis of the study is that there is no statistical difference between the scores of the image scale towards nursing between the experimental and control groups after the peer-assisted orientation process.

Detailed description

In the study, pre-test data will be collected from the first year students enrolled in the school by using the 'Sociodemographic Data Form' and the 'Image Scale for Nursing Profession'. According to the pre-test results, 108 first-year nursing students who scored 143 points or less from the Image Scale for Nursing Profession will be determined by an independent statistical expert. These students will then be assigned to the experimental (n=54) and control (n=54) groups by simple randomisation method. The students in the intervention group will be randomly grouped with 27 senior nursing students who voluntarily agree to participate in the project to provide peer counseling, and one senior student will counsel 2 first-year students. A 7-week counseling process of 1 hour per week will be applied to 54 students in the intervention group. The research will be finalised by applying the post-test to the control and intervention groups immediately after the intervention.

Interventions

7 weeks peer counselling process will be carried out.

Sponsors

Mersin University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Intervention model description

The research will be conducted in a single-centre, parallel group, randomised controlled pretest-posttest design.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

The experimental and control group to be included in the study * Continuing their education in the first year of Mersin University Faculty of Nursing in the 2023-2024 Academic Year, * Willing to participate in the study voluntarily, signing the informed consent form/written consent form, * Does not have any cognitive, affective and verbal problems that prevent communication * It is planned to include nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and lower.

Exclusion criteria

The experimental and control group to be excluded in the study * Do not wish to participate as a volunteer, do not sign the informed consent form/written consent form * Have a problem that prevents them from communicating cognitively, emotionally and verbally, * It is planned to exclude nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and higher from the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Nursing image scores evaluated using Image Scale for Nursing ProfessionBefore the intervention, Immediately after the intervention.Scores ranging from 42 to 210. It is a 5-point Likert type scale and consists of 42 items. It is evaluated between 5 'strongly agree' and 1 'strongly disagree'. Items 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29 and 31 are reverse coded. As the score obtained from the scale increases, nurses' perception of professional image increases positively. Scale 143-109 points indicate medium level image, 108 and below indicate low level nursing image.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

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