The Effect of Peer Counseling on Nursing Image (peer)

April 6, 2024 updated by: SÜMEYYE KAYA KOCAGİL, Mersin University

The Effect of Peer Counseling Initiative Applied to First Year Nursing Students in the Orientation Process on Their Perception of Nursing Image

The aim of this randomised controlled study was to examine the effect of peer counselling on first-year nursing students' perceptions of nursing image in orientation processes.The H0 hypothesis of the study is that there is no statistical difference between the scores of the image scale towards nursing between the experimental and control groups after the peer-assisted orientation process.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

In the study, pre-test data will be collected from the first year students enrolled in the school by using the 'Sociodemographic Data Form' and the 'Image Scale for Nursing Profession'. According to the pre-test results, 108 first-year nursing students who scored 143 points or less from the Image Scale for Nursing Profession will be determined by an independent statistical expert. These students will then be assigned to the experimental (n=54) and control (n=54) groups by simple randomisation method. The students in the intervention group will be randomly grouped with 27 senior nursing students who voluntarily agree to participate in the project to provide peer counseling, and one senior student will counsel 2 first-year students. A 7-week counseling process of 1 hour per week will be applied to 54 students in the intervention group. The research will be finalised by applying the post-test to the control and intervention groups immediately after the intervention.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

108

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Turkey
      • Mersin, Turkey
        • Turkey, Mersin University

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

The experimental and control group to be included in the study

  • Continuing their education in the first year of Mersin University Faculty of Nursing in the 2023-2024 Academic Year,
  • Willing to participate in the study voluntarily, signing the informed consent form/written consent form,
  • Does not have any cognitive, affective and verbal problems that prevent communication
  • It is planned to include nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and lower.

Exclusion Criteria:

The experimental and control group to be excluded in the study

  • Do not wish to participate as a volunteer, do not sign the informed consent form/written consent form
  • Have a problem that prevents them from communicating cognitively, emotionally and verbally,
  • It is planned to exclude nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and higher from the study.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: peer counselling
  • Does not have any cognitive, affective and verbal problems that prevent communication
  • It is planned to include nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and lower.
  • The peer counselling process related to nursing image was applied to this group by 1 senior nursing student for 1 hour a week for 7 weeks. Before and immediately after the 7-week period, the nursing image scale is applied.
Other: Peer Counselling
7 weeks peer counselling process will be carried out.
No Intervention: Control
  • Does not have any cognitive, affective and verbal problems that prevent communication
  • It is planned to include nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and lower.
  • No peer counselling process is applied to this group. Seven weeks after the first data collection, the final data are collected for the second time using the nursing image scale.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Nursing image scores evaluated using Image Scale for Nursing Profession
Time Frame: Before the intervention, Immediately after the intervention.
Scores ranging from 42 to 210. It is a 5-point Likert type scale and consists of 42 items. It is evaluated between 5 'strongly agree' and 1 'strongly disagree'. Items 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29 and 31 are reverse coded. As the score obtained from the scale increases, nurses' perception of professional image increases positively. Scale 143-109 points indicate medium level image, 108 and below indicate low level nursing image.
Before the intervention, Immediately after the intervention.

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Mersin University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sümeyye Kaya Kocagil, Master, Mersin University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 1, 2024

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

December 22, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 22, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

January 8, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 9, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 6, 2024

Last Verified

April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • SKaya_002

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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