Anxiety, Attitude, Self-Efficacy
Conditions
Keywords
Nursing Students, Clinical Practice, Clinical Training, Nursing Education
Brief summary
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative and person-centered counseling approach aimed at enhancing individuals' intrinsic motivation. Nursing students often experience stress, anxiety, and low self-efficacy during clinical practice. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of motivational interviewing on nursing students' attitudes toward clinical practice, anxiety levels, and perceptions of self-efficacy. The study will be conducted using a randomized controlled design, and the potential of motivational interviewing as an effective psychological intervention in nursing education will be evaluated.
Interventions
OTHERmotivational interviewing
A structured motivational interviewing program delivered by certified researchers during skills laboratory sessions to enhance students' attitudes, reduce anxiety, and improve self-efficacy in clinical practice.
Sponsors
Cemal
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Being a first-year student in the Nursing Program * Enrolled in the Fall semester of the 2025-2026 academic year * Voluntarily agreeing to participate in the Motivational Interviewing programAble to attend face-to-face data collection sessions
Exclusion criteria
* Students with prior experience in Motivational Interviewing * Students unable to attend skills laboratory training * Students with prior clinical practice experience that could bias study outcomes * Students who do not consent to participate in the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-Efficacy in Clinical Performance Scale | Baseline (pre-test) and 4 weeks after intervention (post-test) | Originally developed by Cheraghi et al. (2009), this scale consists of 37 items divided into four sub-dimensions: data collection (items 1-12), diagnosis and planning (items 13-21), implementation (items 22-31), and evaluation (items 32-37). Each item is scored from 0% ("not confident at all") to 100% ("completely confident"). The scale measures nursing students' self-efficacy in clinical performance. |
| Attitude Toward Clinical Practice Scale for Nursing Students | Baseline (pre-test) and 4 weeks post-intervention | Developed by Akdeniz Uysal and Yeliş Bayülgen (2022), this scale measures nursing students' attitudes toward clinical practice. It consists of items scored on a 5-point Likert scale: 1 = "Strongly Disagree", 2 = "Disagree", 3 = "Undecided", 4 = "Agree", 5 = "Strongly Agree". |
| Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) | Baseline (pre-test) and 4 weeks post-intervention | Developed by Spielberger, Gorsuch, and Lushene (1970), the STAI consists of two 20-item subscales measuring state anxiety and trait anxiety. The Turkish adaptation has been validated and shown to be reliable for assessing anxiety levels in nursing students. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed