The Effect of Simulation to Improve of Nurse's Attitudes Towards Elderly Patient

The Effect of Simulation Based Learning on Improve Positive Attitudes and Individualized Care Perceptions of Nurses Towards Elderly Patient

The elderly population is increasing in the world. Therefore, it is necessary to competent nurses who can diagnose the care needs of the elderly. Trainings should be planned in order to improve nurses' perception of individualized care in the care and attitudes positively of elderly patient. In post-graduate education, the use of traditional teaching methods and innovative simulation-based education will facilitate the increase of knowledge and skills. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of simulation-based education on the improve of nurses' perception of individualized care and positive attitudes towards the elderly. The study is quasi-experimental with a pre-test post-test design. Before the data collection phase, a simulation-based training program consisting of three stages was created. The data of the study were collected in a university hospital between October 2021 and April 2022, with the socio-demographic characteristics form, the perception of individualized care and the attitude scale towards the elderly. The data will be analyzed in the package program and the study will be reported.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Elderly; Simulation Training; Nursing Care
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: simulation based learning

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Bağcılar
    • Istanbul, Bağcılar, Turkey
      • Istanbul Medipol University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Completed undergraduate education
• Have been working in the geriatric clinic for at least 6 months
• Volunteer to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not completing the stages of the study
• nurses with less than 6 months of experience in the geriatric clinic
• not volunteer to participate in the study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Study group; At the beginning, knowledge test, individualized care perception and attitude scale to the elderly will be applied to the participants in the pre-test. Then, 6-hour theoretical course on the care of the elderly patient will be given to the participants included in the study. After the theoretical course, the knowledge test will be re-applied. After that, experience will be provided within the scope of first, second and third level simulation-based learning, one week apart. After the simulation experiences knowledge test, individualized care perception and attitude scale to the elderly will be applied to the participants in the post-test 1. Post-tests will be administered in the first (Post-test 2) and third (Post-test 3) months of the simulation experience.

Other: simulation based learning; An educational methodology that aims to improve participants' attitudes towards the elderly and their perception of individualized care.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from attitudes towards the elderly at four months	Mean scores of the participants' on scale of attitude towards the elderly	Pre-test (before theoretical course), post test 1 (one week after simulation-based learning), post test 2 (one month after simulation-based learning) and post test 3(three month after simulation-based learning)
Change from perception of individualized care at four months	Mean scores of the participants on the scale of perception of individualized care for the elderly	Pre-test (before theoretical course), post test 1 (one week after simulation-based learning), post test 2 (one month after simulation-based learning) and post test 3 (three month after simulation-based learning)
Change from knowledge test at four months	Mean scores of the participants' on scale of knowledge of care towards the elderly	Pre-test (before theoretical course), immediately post test 1, post test 2 (one week after simulation-based learning), post test 3 (one month after simulation-based learning) and post test 4 (three month after simulation-based learning)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Istanbul Medipol University Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 20, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 10, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): April 10, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 30, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 2, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): August 3, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 3, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 2, 2022
• Last Verified: July 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Individualized care; Elderly patient; Simulation based learning; nursing attitudes
• Other Study ID Numbers: 1122334455

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Yes
• IPD Plan Description: The study is a doctoral thesis. It will first be reported as a thesis and then shared with the researchers as an article.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: The data will be used until the thesis and article process is completed.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: Clinical Study Report (CSR)

Drug and device information, study documents

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