Intervention of Growth Mindset for Intern Nursing Students

A 12-week Growth Mindset Intervention for Intern Nursing Students

This is a 12-week growth mindset intervention for the nursing students during clinical rotation practice. It aims at promoting the core self-evaluation and professional self-efficacy for them.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Growth, Psychological
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: a 12-week growth mindset intervention; Other: Hospital mentoring

Detailed Description

64 intern nursing students from a hospital in China were recruited for this study and randomly assigned to the intervention group and control group.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 64
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• China
  • Hangzhou, China
    • Hangzhou Normal University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• full-time intern nursing students including Junior college and undergraduate students；
• require a clinical nursing internship for at least 8 months ；
• know the purpose of the study and volunteer to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• recently experienced significant stress events such as accidental injuries, nursing accidents, etc；
• receiving other training that may affect this intervention.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Growth mindset intervention group; Internship nursing students received a 12-week growth mindset intervention.	Behavioral: a 12-week growth mindset intervention; This is a 12-week growth mindset intervention for the nursing students during clinical rotation practice. It aims at promoting the core self-evaluation and professional sefl-efficacy for them. The intervention has 12 themes, with each intervention lasting 15 to 20 minutes. Intervention will be carried out through a combination of online and offline methods.
Other: Hospital Teaching Team; Controlled group will receive regular hospital teaching.	Other: Hospital mentoring; The control group will receive guidance from the hospital. Including self-regulation of stress, self-protection in clinical practice, and so on

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
growth mindset	Growth mindset in recent one week measured by the growth mindset scale , ranging from 6-36, with higher score reflects higher level of growth mindset.	We will measure the score of growth mindset before the training, 6 weeks of training, and 12 weeks of training.
core self-evaluation	Core self-evaluation in recent one week measured by the core self-evaluation scale, ranging from 10-50, with higher score reflects higher level of core self-evaluation.	We will measure the score of core self-evaluation before the training, 6 weeks of training, and 12 weeks of training.
professional self-efficacy	Professional self-efficacy in recent one week measured by the professional self-efficacy questionnaire for nursing students, ranging from 27-135, with higher score reflects higher level of professional self-efficacy.	We will measure the score of professional self-efficacy before the training, 6 weeks of training, and 12 weeks of training.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Huzhou University
• Collaborators: Hangzhou Normal University; The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University
• Investigators: Study Director: MeiJuan Cao, Dr., Huzhou University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 5, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 27, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): November 27, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 13, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 13, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): July 18, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 22, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 19, 2024
• Last Verified: July 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2022032

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: The participants are not willing to share the data.

Drug and device information, study documents

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