Drama-supported Patient Role Experience of Nursing Students

NCT05117944 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 21129001
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 52
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

"Empathy", one of the skills required by the nursing profession, has an important place in the patient-nurse relationship. Considered as the most basic motivation of altruistic behaviour, empathy requires recognizing the emotional states of others and understanding their needs. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of drama-supported "patient role" experience on nursing students' empathy and altruism levels. Method: This research was designed as a pretest-posttest regular parallel-group, randomized controlled experiments. The research will be carried out with students studying in Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing, 2nd grade, without a history of hospitalization and chronic disease and who agreed to participate in the research. Data will be collected using the Datasheet, Altruism Scale, and Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students (JESNS). The data will be analyzed in the SPSS program.

Conditions

Nursing Students; Empathy; Altruism; Patient

Keywords

nursing; nursing student; nursing education; empathy; altruism; patient; drama

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• The Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students

  1\. The Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students: Hojat et al. (2001) for physicians and adapted for nursing students by Ward (2009). The scale for nursing students was adapted to Turkish by Yanık and Saygılı (2014), and its validity and reliability were established. The original scale consisted of 20 items and three sub-dimensions. The Turkish version consists of 3 sub-dimensions (catching the patient's point of view, compassionate care, putting yourself in the patient's place) and 18 items, as in the original. The scale is a 7-point Likert type (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree) and is scored between 18-126. Items 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18 and 19 are reverse scored on the scale. The higher the score, the higher the level of empathy. It has been reported that the total Cronbach alpha value of the scale was calculated as 0.73. This scale will be filled in during the pre-test, post-test and follow-up phases of the research

  Change from empathy levels of students at one and third months from baseline

• Altruism Scale

  2\. Altruism Scale: The scale developed by Ümmet, Ekşi, and Otrar (2013) to measure the altruistic behaviours of individuals has seven sub-dimensions (participation in voluntary activities, financial assistance, assistance in traumatic situations, assistance to the elderly/patients, assistance based on physical strength, in education process). It is a 5-point Likert-type scale (1=I strongly disagree, 2=Disagree, 3=I am undecided, 4=I agree, 5=I totally agree) consisting of 38 items (help, help arising from a sense of closeness) and 38 items. The total Cronbach Alpha value of the scale was stated as 0.81. There is no reverse item and cut-off point in the scale, and a high score (min: 38- max: 190) indicates high altruism. This scale will be filled in during the pre-test, post-test and follow-up stages of the research.

  Change from alturism levels of students at one and third months from baseline.

Study Arms (2)

Drama

EXPERIMENTAL

Students in the intervention group will act as the patient and act out the case given to them. Nursing care to be provided by a professional nurse to the student who will play the role of the patient in line with the case content includes helping the patient (student) eat, perform personal hygiene (oral care, etc.), dress and move. The case content will not be shared with the students in advance, and the student will not need to make any preliminary preparations. However, ten minutes before the start of the practice, the situations that are expected to be portrayed as the patient specified in the case will be explained to the students. The skills laboratory will be used as three separate patient rooms (with two or three patients), in which students in the role of inpatient will receive care from a professional nurse. Each student will experience the patient role only once.

Other: drama-supported "patient role" experience

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Students in the control group will fill in the datasheet, Altruism Scale and Empathy Scale simultaneously with the intervention group, without any intervention, and then the Altruism Scale and Empathy Scale at the 1st and 3rd months.

Interventions

drama-supported "patient role" experience OTHER

The students participated in 3 hours of drama activities and played the role of a patient whose basic needs such as nutrition, dressing and oral care were met by the nurse, lying down for 4 hours in the skills laboratory.

Drama

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• second-year nursing student

You may not qualify if:

• have a history of hospitalization
• have a chronic disease
• working as a nurse

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Gulden Basit: lead
• Necmettin Erbakan University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing

Konya, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Altruism

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Social Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Gülden Basit, RN, PhD

  Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 21, 2021
• First Posted: November 11, 2021
• Study Start: October 9, 2021
• Primary Completion: February 9, 2022
• Study Completion: February 9, 2022
• Last Updated: February 23, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)