Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Nature Sounds in Nursing Students

NCT04409938 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 121
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 127
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of PMR and nature sounds on nursing students' BPM skills, and anxiety levels and vital signs. Methods: This was a randomized controlled experimental study conducted at the nursing department of the faculty of health sciences of a university. PMR participants rested for ten minutes between the sessions and then practiced PMR for 15 minutes. PMR+NS participants practiced PMR accompanied by nature sounds.

Conditions

Anxiety

Keywords

Skill training; Nursing students; Anxiety; Blood Pressure Measurement Skills

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

  The STAI consists of two parts; the State Anxiety Inventory (SAI) and the Trait Anxiety Inventory (TAI). The SAI measures anxiety about an event while the TAI measures anxiety level as a personal characteristic. The TAI and SAI each consists of 20 items. The SAI items are scored on a 4-point Likert scale of 1 to 4 (1= never, 2= sometimes, 3= often, 4= always). The SAI items are scored on a 4-point Likert scale of 1 to 4 (1= almost never, 2= sometimes, 3= often, 4= almost always). Ten SAI items (1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, and 20) and six TAI items (1, 6, 7, 13, 16, and 19) are reverse scored. Higher scores indicate greater anxiety.

  pre-intervention

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• The State Anxiety Inventory (SAI)

  through study completion for each group, an average of 4 hour

• The Blood Pressure Knowledge Test (BPKT)

  through study completion for each group, an average of 4 hour

Study Arms (3)

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

EXPERIMENTAL

PMR participants rested for ten minutes between the sessions and then practiced PMR for 15 minutes. PMR consisted of taking a deep breath five times and then clenching fists, raising the shoulders, bringing the forearms towards the body, stretching the triceps muscle, and tensing and relaxing the forehead, eye, chin, neck, chest, abdomen, back, hips, thigh, and feet muscles. The investigators made a video of exercises in a certain order and uploaded it to the television in the lab prior to the intervention.

Other: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Progressive Muscle Relaxation with Nature Sounds

EXPERIMENTAL

PMR+NS participants practiced PMR accompanied by nature sounds.

Other: Progressive Muscle Relaxation; Other: Nature Sounds

Standard Practice

NO INTERVENTION

The standard practice of the lab was made.

Interventions

Progressive Muscle Relaxation OTHER

PMR participants rested for ten minutes between the sessions and then practiced PMR for 15 minutes. PMR consisted of taking a deep breath five times and then clenching fists, raising the shoulders, bringing the forearms towards the body, stretching the triceps muscle, and tensing and relaxing the forehead, eye, chin, neck, chest, abdomen, back, hips, thigh, and feet muscles. The investigators made a video of exercises in a certain order and uploaded it to the television in the lab prior to the intervention. The investigators turned on the video during the intervention and asked the participants to follow the instructions for PMR exercises.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation; Progressive Muscle Relaxation with Nature Sounds

Nature Sounds OTHER

PMR+NS participants practiced PMR accompanied by nature sounds. PMR consisted of taking a deep breath five times and then clenching fists, raising the shoulders, bringing the forearms towards the body, stretching the triceps muscle, and tensing and relaxing the forehead, eye, chin, neck, chest, abdomen, back, hips, thigh, and feet muscles. The investigators made a video of exercises in a certain order and uploaded it to the television in the lab prior to the intervention. The investigators turned on the video during the intervention and asked the participants to follow the instructions for PMR exercises.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation with Nature Sounds

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• being a first-year nursing student
• voluntary
• participating in the theoretical part of the "Pulse and Blood Pressure Measurement" course and in lab practice.

You may not qualify if:

• not participating in the theoretical part of the "Pulse and Blood Pressure Measurement" course and in lab practice.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• TC Erciyes University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Erciyes University

Kayseri, 38039, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

Autogenic Training

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Hypnosis; Mind-Body Therapies; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Psychotherapy; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Study Officials

• Sevda Korkut, PhD

  TC Erciyes University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Inverstigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 21, 2020
• First Posted: June 1, 2020
• Study Start: February 3, 2020
• Primary Completion: February 3, 2020
• Study Completion: February 28, 2020
• Last Updated: August 31, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-08

Locations

TU (1)