Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercises and Anxiety

NCT06806878 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 23841101020
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 141
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

Nursing practice education consists of two parts: laboratory applications aiming at skill acquisition of students and the application part experienced on real patients. Student nurses gain their first skills in laboratory applications accompanied by an instructor. This experience may increase the anxiety levels of nursing students due to reasons such as practising for the first time, hesitating to practice under the supervision of an instructor, and fear of making mistakes. If students learn intramuscular injection, which is one of the skill applications that is a part of care, which is the most important power of nursing, with increased anxiety levels, it may cause a decrease in clinical competence and a decrease in the quality of health care they will provide in the future. Various methods have been tried for nursing students' anxiety levels to be above the optimum level in laboratory applications and it has been observed that anxiety levels have decreased. One of these methods is progressive muscle relaxation exercises. In this study, it is planned to apply progressive muscle relaxation exercises in order to examine the effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercises on the success and anxiety of nursing students related to intramuscular injection practice. Materials and Method: In this pre-test-post-test randomised controlled study planned to be conducted in Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing skill laboratories, consent will be obtained from the 1st year nursing students. The students will fill in the descriptive characteristics form, Visual Anxiety Scale and IM injection success test prepared by reviewing the literature before and after intramuscular injection. After the completion of the forms, 'progressive muscle relaxation exercises' will be applied to the students by the researcher for about 30 minutes. Students who volunteered to participate in the study and who took the 'Fundamentals of Nursing' course for the first time will be included in the study.

Conditions

Anxiety State; Progressive Muscle Relaxation; Nursing Students

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Students anxiety

  Students anxiety level will be evaluated by using the "visual anxiety scale" consisting of 100 mm horizontal lines without numbers. At one end of the line is "No Anxiety" and at the other end is "Unbearable Anxiety". The student is expected to put a mark on this line at the point that matches the level of their anxiety. The distance from the lowest level to the student's mark is measured with a ruler and the numerical value of the anxiety level is obtained in cm or mm.

  This scale will be filled out by students before starting the IM injection skill practice and within 10 minutes after the IM practice is completed.

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Intramuscular Injection Success Test

  this test will be answered before and within 10 minutes after im injection implementation

Study Arms (2)

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

EXPERIMENTAL

In this pre-test-post-test randomised controlled study planned to be conducted in Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing skills laboratories, consent will be obtained from 1st year nursing students. The students will fill out the descriptive characteristics form, Visual Anxiety Scale and IM injection success test prepared by reviewing the literature before and after intramuscular injection. After the completion of the forms, 'progressive muscle relaxation exercises' will be applied to the students by the researcher for about 30 minutes. Students who volunteered to participate in the study and who took the 'Fundamentals of Nursing' course for the first time will be included in the study.

Other: Progressive muscle relaxation

no intervention

NO INTERVENTION

students will not take any intervention before ım injection application.

Interventions

Progressive muscle relaxation OTHER

We will apply progressive muscle relaxation exercises to reduce nursing students' anxiety about intramuscular injection administration

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Students who volunteered to participate in the study
• took the 'Fundamentals of Nursing' lesson for the first time

You may not qualify if:

• Students who are foreign nationals,
• who have taken the course more than once due to absenteeism or failure,
• who have come with horizontal or vertical transfer,
• who are graduates of Health Vocational High School,
• who have previous injection experience
• who have been diagnosed with anxiety,
• students who do not want to participate in the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Necmettin Erbakan University: lead

Study Sites (2)

Necmettin Erbakan University

Konya, Meram, 42090, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Necmettin Erbakan University

Meram, 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

• Gülden Basit, Dr

  Necmettin Erbakan University

  STUDY CHAIR

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: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assoc. Prof.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 21, 2025
• First Posted: February 4, 2025
• Study Start: March 3, 2025
• Primary Completion: March 4, 2025
• Study Completion: March 4, 2025
• Last Updated: April 15, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (2)