The Effect of Compassionate Care Education on Nurses
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interventional
60
1 country
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Brief Summary
Compassion is an important concept underlying relationships between people. Compassion is a complex, multifaceted psychological and social process. Professional values form the basis of nursing care. The concept of compassion is one of these professional values, as well as one of the essential components of care that facilitates nursing care. Compassion-based care provides patient-centered care with a holistic approach while increasing the quality of care. Despite this importance, many healthcare professionals remain inadequate regarding compassionate care. The idea that compassion is innate or learned in people causes various difficulties in teaching compassion. Compassionate care is an emotion that can be taught and developed with innovative interactive methods along with developing technology. Methods such as video-supported teaching and case analysis, which are widely used in nursing education, contribute to developing cognitive and affective skills such as interpretation, critical thinking, and problem-solving in nurses. In this context, it is aimed to implement compassionate care training, developed based on Watson's Human Caring Model, on nurses by enriching it with video-supported teaching and case analysis methods, and to evaluate the effect of this training on nurses' compassion levels and caring behaviors.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
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participants targeted
Target at P25-P50 for not_applicable
Started Dec 2025
Shorter than P25 for not_applicable
1 active site
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Trial Relationships
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
March 18, 2025
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
April 10, 2025
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
December 20, 2025
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
January 16, 2026
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
February 20, 2026
CompletedDecember 16, 2025
December 1, 2025
27 days
March 18, 2025
December 13, 2025
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Compassion Competence Scale
"Compassion Competence Scale"; consists of 3 sub-dimensions: "Communication," which expresses understanding and compassion towards patients and their families; "Sensitivity," which expresses the ability to notice and respond to changes in patients' emotions through careful observation; and "Insight," which expresses the ability to clearly understand patients and comprehensively meet their needs and conditions based on professional knowledge. The scale is a 5-point Likert-type scale with 11 items. The scale is interpreted by calculating the mean scores of the items. The highest score that can be obtained from the scale is 5, and the lowest score is 1. As the score increases, the level of compassion competence increases.
12 weeks from enrollment to the end of training
Secondary Outcomes (2)
Caring Behaviors Scale
12 weeks from enrollment to the end of training
Nurse Feedback Form on Compassionate Care Training
12 weeks from enrollment to the end of training
Study Arms (1)
Single Group Assignment
EXPERIMENTALNurse group
Interventions
Nurse Feedback Form on Compassionate Care Training
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Volunteering to participate in the study,
- Understanding and using Turkish effectively,
- Not being on leave during the study.
You may not qualify if:
- Nurses who answered the data collection forms incompletely,
- Nurses who did not want to continue the study,
- Nurses who did not participate in even one of the compassionate care education programs of the study.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Kirikkale University
Kırıkkale, Kırıkkale, 71450, Turkey (Türkiye)
Related Publications (2)
Abate M, Tadesse N, Mitiku K. Level of compassionate health care service provision and its associated factors among health professionals working in public hospitals of Addis Ababa: health professionals' perspective. Heliyon. 2022 Mar 23;8(3):e09160. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09160. eCollection 2022 Mar.
PMID: 35846442BACKGROUNDAdam D, Taylor R. Compassionate care: empowering students through nurse education. Nurse Educ Today. 2014 Sep;34(9):1242-5. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.07.011. Epub 2013 Jul 25.
PMID: 23972295BACKGROUND
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Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Gönül GÜMÜŞ
Kırıkkale University
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NA
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Lecturer (MSc)
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
March 18, 2025
First Posted
April 10, 2025
Study Start
December 20, 2025
Primary Completion
January 16, 2026
Study Completion
February 20, 2026
Last Updated
December 16, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-12
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share
It will not be shared because it is not ethically appropriate.