Developing Nursing Students' Intercultural Sensitivity Levels

Developing Nursing Students' Intercultural Sensitivity Levels: A Randomized Controlled Experimental Study

This study; This is a randomized controlled experimental type study designed to improve the intercultural sensitivity levels of nursing students.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Education; Nursing Caries
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Structured education

Detailed Description

Cultural sensitivity is extremely important for healthcare professionals. Understanding cultural differences can help build a trusting relationship between patients and healthcare professionals. This increases patient satisfaction and improves the quality of health services.

This work; This is a randomized controlled experimental type study designed to improve the intercultural sensitivity levels of nursing students.

Intercultural sensitivity training does not affect the intercultural sensitivity level of nursing students.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 117
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Aydın, Turkey
    • Aydın Adnan Menderes University Institute of Health Sciences Department of Public Health Nursing

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being a student of Aydın Adnan Menderes University Nursing Department
• Having successfully completed the basic practical courses of the first three classes
• Being enrolled in one of the Public Health Nursing or Mental Health and Diseases Nursing courses from the fourth year
• Volunteer to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not completing the training sessions of the research

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Arms; Nursing students who were in the experimental group during the application phase of the study were given training to develop their intercultural sensitivity levels based on Leninger's Intercultural Nursing Theory. Data were collected at the beginning of the four-week online training, at the end of the training, and one month after the training.	Other: Structured education; The educational content of the research was created by the researcher in line with the literature and expert opinions and covers the following topics. Educational subjects; Culture and Concepts Related to Culture; Culture/Cultural Characteristics and Cultural Elements in Terms of Social Structure; Cultural Factors Affecting Health and Disease; Concepts and Practices Related to the Field of Study The training is an online training and continued via video conference, and a session invitation was sent to the participants before each session. In addition, after the training, brochures containing the training topics of each week were prepared and delivered to the participants. The trainings were conducted by the researcher in a total of four sessions (each session 20 minutes) once a week during the training process. During the training, the questions of the participants were answered.
No Intervention: Control groups; No application was made to the control group within the scope of the research. Data were collected simultaneously with only the experimental group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Intercultural Sensitivity Scale and Personel Questions	The scale was developed by Chen and Starosta and was adapted to Turkish in 2010. It consists of twenty-four items and includes five emotional dimensions necessary to measure intercultural sensitivity. The scale has five dimensions: responsibility in communication, respect for cultural differences, self-confidence in communication, enjoying communication, and being careful in communication. The scale has a 5-point Likert-type rating. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of sensitivity increases. The Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was determined as 0.90.	Pre-test (Before the training)
Intercultural Sensitivity Scale	The scale was developed by Chen and Starosta and was adapted to Turkish in 2010. It consists of twenty-four items and includes five emotional dimensions necessary to measure intercultural sensitivity. The scale has five dimensions: responsibility in communication, respect for cultural differences, self-confidence in communication, enjoying communication, and being careful in communication. The scale has a 5-point Likert-type rating. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of sensitivity increases. The Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was determined as 0.90.	four weeks after the pre-test (at the end of the training)
Intercultural Sensitivity Scale	The scale was developed by Chen and Starosta and was adapted to Turkish in 2010. It consists of twenty-four items and includes five emotional dimensions necessary to measure intercultural sensitivity. The scale has five dimensions: responsibility in communication, respect for cultural differences, self-confidence in communication, enjoying communication, and being careful in communication. The scale has a 5-point Likert-type rating. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of sensitivity increases. The Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was determined as 0.90.	eight weeks after the pre-test (and one month after the training)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Aydin Adnan Menderes University
• Investigators: Study Chair: Öner ALTINTOP, MsC, Aydın Adnan Menderes University Institute of Health Sciences Department of Public Health Nursing

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): April 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 21, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 10, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): July 12, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 12, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 10, 2023
• Last Verified: July 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Nursing; Student; Education; Sensitivity; Culture; Intercultural
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Immune System Diseases; Hypersensitivity
• Other Study ID Numbers: Intercultural Sensitivity

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: The data sets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: 6 months after publication
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: relevance to the topic of the study and approval of all co-authors within 1 month of receiving the request.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: 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