Digital Storytelling-role Play for Ethical Behaviours to Protect Patient Rights and Ethical Sensitivity

Effect of Digital Storytelling and Role Play on Nursing Students' Ethical Behaviours to Protect Patient Rights and Ethical Sensitivity: A Randomized Controlled Study

This study aimed to investigate the effect of an ethics education using role-play and digital storytelling, on nursing students' ethical behaviours to protect patient's rights and ethical sensitivity.

• Is role-playing in ethics education effective in improving students' behaviours to protect patients' rights?
• Is role-playing in ethics education effective in improving students' ethical sensitivity?
• Is digital storytelling in ethics education effective in improving students' behaviours towards protecting patients' rights?
• Is digital storytelling in ethics education effective in developing students' ethical sensitivity? The researchers will compare the mean scores of the ethical behaviours toward protecting patient rights scale and ethical sensitivity scale to see whether role-playing and digital storytelling methods in ethics education have an effect on nursing students' ethical behaviours and ethical sensitivity towards protecting patient rights.
• All groups will participate in the theoretical lectures of ethics education for a total of five weeks, three hours a week.
• The theoretical lectures will consist of examination of ethics and related concepts, ethical principles, professional values in nursing, relationship between care and ethics, ethical problems and ethical approaches.
• One week after the theoretical lecture, all groups will participate in a two-week practice phase, three hours a week.
• Each group will be divided into small groups of 6-7 people.
• The Intervention I group will conduct an ethical case analysis involving an ethical problem given to them by the researchers in the classroom environment every week and will discuss the analysis using the role-play method in the ethics committee to be formed after the session.
• Intervention II group will discuss the ethical case analyses with ethical problems written by themselves by coming together outside the classroom environment.
• Each small group of 6-7 people will present their ethical case analyses to other group members in the classroom through digital storytelling.
• The control group will continue the standard education.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Nursing Students; Role Playing; Ethical Sensitivities; Analyses, Ethical; Digital Storytelling; Ethics Education; Ethical Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Role Playing; Other: Digital Storytelling

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 69
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Ankara, Turkey, 06500
    • Gazi University Faculty of Nursing

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• First-time registration in the course
• Being a volunteer

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non-native speakers of the country's native language
• Previous graduation from any health-related university

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Role-playing; The role play group will make an ethical analysis of a case involving an ethical problem given to them by the researchers in the classroom environment every week and will discuss the cases using the role play method in the ethics committee to be formed after the session.	Other: Role Playing; The group will analyse the instant cases given by the researchers using the role-play method.
Experimental: Digital storytelling; Digital storytelling group will discuss the ethical analyses of the cases with ethical issues written by themselves outside the classroom environment. Each small group of 6-7 people will present their ethical case analyses to other group members in the classroom through digital storytelling.	Other: Digital Storytelling; The group will analyse the ethical analysis of the cases containing ethical problems written by themselves by using digital storytelling
No Intervention: standard education; The control group will continue the standard education.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Mean scores of ethical behaviors toward protecting patients'rights	The mean score will be obtained using the ethical behaviors toward protecting patients'rights scale.	From enrollment to the end of ethics education at 8 weeks.
Mean scores of ethical sensitivity	The mean score will be obtained using the ethical sensitivity scale.	From enrollment to the end of ethics education at 8 weeks.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Gazi University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 6, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 5, 2025
• Study Completion (Actual): May 25, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 6, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 6, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): November 7, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 31, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 30, 2025
• Last Verified: May 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Digital storytelling; Role playing; Ethics Education; Ethical sensitivity; Ethical behavior
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Immune System Diseases; Hypersensitivity
• Other Study ID Numbers: GaziU-HF-ES-01

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No