THE EFFECT OF CREATIVE DRAMA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANXIETY, EMPATHY AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN NURSING EDUCATION

In Psychiatric Nursing Education; The Effect of Creative Drama Method Based on Travelbee's "Human to Human Relationship" Theory on Developing Anxiety, Empathy and Communication Skills

This work; The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the education program, which was created with the creative drama method based on Travelbee's "human-to-human relationship" theory, on the teaching and practice of mental health and psychiatric nursing course, on reducing the anxiety of students and improving their empathy and communication skills.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Psychiatric Nursing
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: creative drama

Detailed Description

In psychiatric nursing education; It is known that classical education methods are not sufficient to reduce students' anxiety and stigma, and to strengthen communication and empathy. For this reason, there is a need for training methods that will increase in-depth learning and communication skills and empathy in the field. In this research, the creative drama education method was arranged in accordance with the requirements of mental health and psychiatric nursing education and a training program was developed. Within the scope of the research, this training program was applied to the students who completed the theoretical education of psychiatric nursing. In order to measure the effectiveness of the research training program, it was planned in a quantitative design as a randomized controlled intervention study and in a mixed method in qualitative design in order to examine students' views on the method.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 26
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Ankara, Turkey, 06100
    • Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 21 years to 24 years (ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being residing in the city center of Ankara Volunteering to participate in the research, Being a 4th year nursing student and having completed the Mental Health and Diseases Nursing course, Lack of clinical experience in communicating with individuals with mental illness (Health Vocational High School graduate), Not having received training in communicating with individuals with mental illness before (students repeating a grade).

Not having been diagnosed with any mental illness No mental illness in first degree relatives

Exclusion Criteria:

• Living outside the city center of Ankara To fill in the research data collection forms incompletely, Not completing the creative drama education based on human-human relationship theory, Refusal to participate in the research Not meeting the criteria for inclusion in the research

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: OTHER
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental group; It is a closed group in which the training program is implemented.	Behavioral: creative drama; In the training program, a total of six games were played about the experiences of psychiatric patients. The program was designed to be two game per week for four weeks.
No Intervention: Control Group; No training program was applied to this group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The Numerical Rating Scale(NRS)	It was applied to the experimental and control groups to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of the training program.	Eight weeks
Qualitative method, (focus group interview)	It was applied to evaluate the opinions and suggestions of the experimental group about the education program.	one weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Empathic Skill Scale - B	It was used to determine the level of empathic skills of the students at the end of the training program.	Eight weeks
Communication Skills Assessment Scale	It was used to determine the level of communication skills of the students at the end of the education program.	Eight weeks
State and Trait Anxiety Scale	It was used to determine the level of anxiety experienced by the students at the end of the education program.	Eight weeks
semi-structured questionnaire	It was applied to evaluate the opinions and suggestions of the experimental group about the education program	one weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: günseli uzunhasanoğlu, Phd, Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University; Study Director: Birgul Ozkan, Phd, Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 27, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 20, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): October 20, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 12, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 12, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): December 22, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 22, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 12, 2021
• Last Verified: December 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: psychiatric nursing ,creative drama, empathy, Anxiety
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: Ankara YBU-SBF-GU-01

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No