Geriatric Nursing Training Program for Nursing Students

NCT07543627 | Active Not Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 2025-118
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 48
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This research will be conducted using a parallel randomized controlled trial design to investigate the effects of a nursing education program grounded in Travelbe's Human-to-Human Relationship theory on willingness to work with elderly individuals, empathy levels, and communication skills. The sample group will consist of third-year nursing students at a state university (intervention: 24; control: 24). The Willingness to Work with Elderly Individuals Scale, the Kiersma-Chen Empathy Scale, and the Communication Skills Scale will be used to collect data. The intervention group will receive a six-session nursing education program based on Travelbe's Human-to-Human Relationship theory. A repeated-measures ANOVA will be used to compare the mean scores obtained by the groups on the scales. In addition, independent-samples t-tests will be used for the pre-test and post-test comparisons within groups, and Cohen's d and eta-squared will be used to calculate the effect sizes. The normality distribution of the data will be examined. Parametric tests (One-sample t-test, ANOVA) will be applied to data that show normal distribution, and nonparametric tests (Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon test, Friedman test) will be applied to data that do not show normal distribution.

Conditions

Nurse Training; Geriatric; Communication Skills; EMPATHY İN NURSİNG

Keywords

Nursing education; Empathy; Geriatric Nursing; Communication skills; Willigness to work elderly people

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Nursing students' willingness to work with elderly individuals score

  From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Empathy score

  From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks

• Communication skills score

  From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

Other: Travelbee's Human-to-Human Relationship Theory-Based Geriatric Nursing Training Program

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

Travelbee's Human-to-Human Relationship Theory-Based Geriatric Nursing Training Program OTHER

The Travelbee Human-to-Human Relationship Theory-Based Geriatric Health Nursing Education Program has established objectives that nursing students can achieve upon completion, aligned with the program's content. These objectives are included in the program content. The educational program consists of six sessions. Session 1: Initial Encounter Stage (Gamification (Taboo Game Cards) Session 2: Initial Encounter Stage (Nursing Home Visit) Session 3: Emergence of Identities Stage (Standard Patient Simulation) Session 4: Empathy Stage (Aging Simulation Suit) Session 5: Sympathy Stage (Photo-based Case Generation Activity) Session 6: Adaptation (Friendly Relationship) Stage (Role-reversal activity)

Intervention group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: Up to 60 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Being a 3rd-year nursing student,
• Agreeing to participate in the research,
• Having taken the Geriatric Health Nursing (elective) course

You may not qualify if:

• Having any impediment to participation in extracurricular activities (physical/mental/psychological health problems, transportation or time constraints, etc.).
• Removal criteria from the research:
• Not attending more than 30% of the educational program,
• Withdrawing from the research voluntarily,
• Incomplete/non-completion of data collection instruments.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Gazi University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Gazi University, Faculty of Nursing

Ankara, Çankaya, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Data analysis and reporting will be performed by an independent statistician who will not know which group each participant belongs to. Statistical blinding is planned to control for detection bias, statistical bias, and reporting bias in the research.
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Prof

Model Details: Randomized controlled trial in a parallel design

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 14, 2026
• First Posted: April 22, 2026
• Study Start: April 15, 2026
• Primary Completion: April 15, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): May 29, 2026
• Last Updated: April 22, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)