The Effect of Creative Drama on Postmortem Care in Nursing Students

The Effect of Creative Drama Method on Nursing Students' Knowledge and Skills Regarding Postmortem Care

The goal of this randomized controlled including pretest, posttest and persistence test study is to examine the effect of creative drama method on student nurses' knowledge and skill levels related to postmortem care, learning permanence and satisfaction with the training method.

The main question it aims to answer are:

•Is the postmortem care training given to nursing students with the creative drama method effective on the level of knowledge and skills, the permanence of knowledge and skills and satisfaction with the training method? Participants will participate in an educational activity related to postmortem care. Researchers will compare it with the classical education method to see if postmortem care training given to nursing students with the creative drama method is effective.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Healthy
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Creative Darama Group; Other: Classical Education Group

Detailed Description

The research will be carried out in the form of determining the preliminary knowledge of nursing third year students about postmortem care, providing education with classical education and creative drama methods, evaluating the educational outcomes and permanence in education for knowledge and skills, and determining their satisfaction with the educational methods.

Hypotheses of the research are as follows. H1: There is a difference between the knowledge scores of the experimental and control groups on postmortem care. Is there a difference between the creative drama method and classical education method and the satisfaction of postmortem care students with the training method? H2: There is a difference between the skill scores of the experimental and control groups for postmortem care. H

: There is a difference between the information persistence scores of the experimental and control groups related to postmortem care.

H4: There is a difference between the skill persistence scores of the experimental and control groups for postmortem care.

H5: There is a difference between the satisfaction of the experimental and control groups with the training method

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 70
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Bolu, Turkey, 14100
    • Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 26 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, 2022-2023 academic year fall semester to be studying in the third year.
• To have taken the "Principles of Nursing" course and the Loss-Death-Mourning process described in this context at the theoretical level.
• Agreeing to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have previously received skills training related to postmortem care.
• Have previous clinical experience with postmortem care.
• Have previously provided postmortem care.
• Not agreeing to participate in the research.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Creative Darama Group; Postmortem care content including "The concept of death", "Postmortem Care", "Postmortem Care" and "Postmortem Care Practices" will be given to the students in the Creative Darama group in six sessions consisting of the preparation/warm-up, animation and evaluation stages of creative drama.	Other: Creative Darama Group; Postmortem care training given by creative drama method
Active Comparator: Classical Education Group; Theoretical training titled "Post-Death Care" and "The Concept of Death", "Post-Death Changes", "Post-Death Care" and "Post-Death Care Practices" will be conveyed to the students in the classical education group by the researcher using the method of direct expression. After the theoretical training, the students will be taken to the application laboratory and post-mortem care applications will be explained with the demonstration method.	Other: Classical Education Group; Postmortem care training given by classical education method

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Nursing students' level of knowledge about postmortem care:Pre-test	"Postmortem Care Knowledge Test" A "Postmortem Care Knowledge Test" consisting of 19 multiple-choice questions with five options has been developed to measure the level of knowledge of students on the subject of postmortem care. In the knowledge test, each question is 1 point. The score that can be obtained from the test varies between 0-19. The response time of the test is about 20 minutes. A high score from the test indicates that the level of postmortem care information is high, and a low level of postmortem care information is low.	Just before training
Skill levels of nursing students in postmortem care:First-test	"Postmortem Care Skill Checklist" Postmortem Care Skill Checklist is a list of 25 items prepared by the researcher by using the process steps of postmortem care applications in the literature. The measurement criteria were prepared in the style of 3 likert as applied (2 points), partially applied (1 point) and did not apply (0 points). Each application item will be evaluated by averaging the scores given by two independent observers. The score that can be obtained from the applications is between 0-50. A high score obtained at the end of the evaluation indicates that the postmortem care skill level is high and the low postmortem care skill level is low.	Immediately after training
Satisfaction levels of nursing students with the training method	"Satisfaction with Educational Methods Survey" "Satisfaction with Educational Methods Survey" is a questionnaire developed by Gürpınar and consists of 16 propositions (Cronbach alpha: 0.84). Each proposition is scored on a scale of 1 to 5 according to the 5-point lique. In the survey, at least 16 and at most 80 points are given to the satisfaction of the students from the educational methods It is determined that the satisfaction levels of the students increase as the score obtained from the survey increases, and the satisfaction levels decrease as they decrease	Immediately after training

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Nursing students' level of knowledge about postmortem care:Post-test	"Postmortem Care Knowledge Test" A "Postmortem Care Knowledge Test" consisting of 19 multiple-choice questions with five options has been developed to measure the level of knowledge of students on the subject of postmortem care. In the knowledge test, each question is 1 point. The score that can be obtained from the test varies between 0-19. The response time of the test is about 20 minutes. A high score from the test indicates that the level of postmortem care information is high, and a low level of postmortem care information is low.	Immediately after training

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Nursing students' level of knowledge about postmortem care:Persistence test	"Postmortem Care Knowledge Test" A "Postmortem Care Knowledge Test" consisting of 19 multiple-choice questions with five options has been developed to measure the level of knowledge of students on the subject of postmortem care. In the knowledge test, each question is 1 point. The score that can be obtained from the test varies between 0-19. The response time of the test is about 20 minutes. A high score from the test indicates that the level of postmortem care information is high, and a low level of postmortem care information is low.	Four weeks after training
Skill levels of nursing students in postmortem care:Persistence test	"Postmortem Care Skill Checklist" Postmortem Care Skill Checklist is a list of 25 items prepared by the researcher by using the process steps of postmortem care applications in the literature. The measurement criteria were prepared in the style of 3 likert as applied (2 points), partially applied (1 point) and did not apply (0 points). Each application item will be evaluated by averaging the scores given by two independent observers. The score that can be obtained from the applications is between 0-50. A high score obtained at the end of the evaluation indicates that the postmortem care skill level is high and the low postmortem care skill level is low.	Four weeks after training

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Abant Izzet Baysal University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Lütfiye Nur Uzun, PhD Student, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 4, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 23, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): March 30, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 14, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 14, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): December 22, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 20, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 18, 2023
• Last Verified: July 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Nursing Education; Nursing Students; Postmortem care; Creative drama
• Other Study ID Numbers: AIBU-HEM-UZUN-001

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: This study is planned as a doctoral thesis.

Drug and device information, study documents

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