Creative Thinking Problem Solving and Communication Skills

NCT04940728 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: KU-TOSYAMYO-YÖ-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 56
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Creative thinking is a very important factor, especially due to recent developments in technology and health. In order to adapt and contribute to these developments, creativity is also very important for the nursing profession, which is a health discipline consisting of science and art. Creative thinking skills need to be developed so that nurses can develop healthy interpersonal relationships, find solutions to the problems they encounter in their working and social life, approach the patient with a holistic perspective, use the knowledge they have acquired in education life at an optimal level in the delivery of health services, produce new information and gain a critical perspective. In today's information age, it is very important for professional development to develop the teaching models used in nursing education based on the philosophy of lifelong learning, to be revised frequently, to control the curriculum and to evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching techniques used at frequent intervals. The above-mentioned literature suggests that nurses should use creativity in their problem-solving and communication skills. In this context, it creates the need to use alternative creative thinking teaching techniques to develop nursing students' problem solving and communication skills. For this reason, the research was conducted to develop an intervention program based on creative thinking techniques in nursing education and to evaluate the effect of this program based on creative thinking techniques on problem solving and communication skills in nursing students. If a meaningful relationship is found between these variables and creative thinking education as a result of the research, the education program prepared on the subject will constitute a guide for the nursing curriculum in gaining creative thinking, problem solving and communication skills in nursing students.

Conditions

Nursing Caries; Communication; Problem;Learning; Creativity

Keywords

Creativity; Creative thinking; Innovativeness,; Creative ability,; Education nursing; Problem solving skills; Communication skills

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Communication Skills Scale

  Communication Skills Inventory is a 5-point Likert-type Scale consisting of 45 items prepared in order to determine the communication skills levels of individuals. The items are (1) always, (2) usually, (3) sometimes, (4) rarely, and (5) never. The lowest score that can be obtained from the inventory is 45, and the highest score is 225. Each of the sub-dimensions consists of 15 items, including mental (Z) (1, 3, 6, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 26, 28, 33, 37 and 45), emotional (D) (5, 9, 11, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 36, 38-40 and 42-44), and behavioral (T) (2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 13) , 14, 16, 19, 21, 22, 25, 30, 32 and 41) measures communication skills. The higher the participant's sub-dimension score, the better his or her skill in that sub-dimension is interpreted. The high overall score is interpreted as being high in direct proportion to the communication skill.

  Four Months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Problem Solving Scale

  Four Months

Study Arms (2)

Creative Thinking Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Nursing students who took the Self-Knowledge and Communication Techniques course for the first time in March and agreed to participate in the study were divided into experimental (30) and control (30) groups using a simple randomization method. Pre-tests (Descriptive Information Form, Communication Skills Scale, and Problem Solving Scale) were administered to the participants who volunteered to participate in the research using the Online Questionnaire System. Considering the effect on the research data, after completing the routine courses of "self-knowledge", "communication skills", "listening skills" and "problem solving skills"; Intermediate tests (Communication Skills Scale, and Problem Solving Scale) were applied to the experimental and control groups. An intervention program based on creative thinking techniques was applied to the experimental group and post-tests (Communication Skills Scale, and Problem Solving Scale) were applied.

Other: Creative thinking techniques intervention program

Standart Group

NO INTERVENTION

Pre-tests (Descriptive Information Form, Communication Skills Scale, and Problem Solving Scale) were applied to the participants who volunteered to participate in the study by using the Online Questionnaire System. Considering the effect on the research data, after completing the routine courses of "self-knowledge", "communication skills", "listening skills" and "problem solving skills" of the 4 main topics in the course; Intermediate tests (Communication Skills Scale, and Problem Solving Scale) were applied to the experimental and control groups by using the Online Questionnaire System. After the interim tests were applied, no intervention was made to the control group until the end of the period. At the end of the semester, post-tests (Communication Skills Scale, and Problem Solving Scale) were applied.

Interventions

Creative thinking techniques intervention program OTHER

The intervention program based on creative thinking techniques was designed to consist of four stages: preparation, theoretical briefing, skill development and evaluation. In the first stage of the program, acquaintance and information meeting, in the second stage, the theoretical part lasts for two weeks, in the third stage, various creative thinking techniques are applied for four weeks to gain creative thinking skills.

Creative Thinking Group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Being 18 years or older
• Not having a neurological problem
• Being able to communicate in Turkish mother tongue,
• To have active education in the nursing program
• To have taken the self-knowledge and communication course for the first time
• Volunteering to participate in the research

You may not qualify if:

• Be under the age of 18,
• Not having internet access
• Not being able to communicate in Turkish in mother tongue or being a foreign national,
• Have any previous training in creativity,
• Not volunteering to participate in the research,
• No internet use during the application process

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kastamonu University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Health Sciences

Ankara, 06, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Communication

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Birgül ÖZKAN, Assoc. Prof.

  Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Health Sciences

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: In this study, the sample groups (experimental and control) were determined by an instructor other than the researchers, and the researchers were blinded while the sample was being created. The researchers and participants did not know who was in the experiment and who was in the control group during the assignment process until the study started. This method is a control method in which the participants in the study are blinded. After the assignment process took place, it was ensured that the students included in the research and the statistician evaluating the data did not know the experimental and control groups. In this context, two-way blinding method was used.
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: LECTURER

Model Details: This research was designed in the experimental design model with pretest-posttest randomized control group, one of the quantitative research methods, in order to evaluate the effect of the intervention program developed based on creative thinking techniques on the problem solving and communication skills of nursing students.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 24, 2021
• First Posted: June 28, 2021
• Study Start: March 10, 2021
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2021
• Study Completion: June 1, 2021
• Last Updated: June 29, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)