The Effect of Two Dıfferent Technıques Used in Psychomotor Skılls Traınıng on Nursıng Students
Condition: Anxiety; Clinical Decision-making; Simulation Training; Nursing Students
MeSH terms: Anxiety Disorders
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Background: Nursing education aims to provide students with knowledge and skills related to
      the profession and develop students in terms of personal characteristics such as clinical
      decision-making, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Innovative approaches and
      interactive learning strategies are needed during education periods to increase skills and
      personal development.

      Aim: The study aimed to investigate the effect of computer simulation and imagery learning
      techniques in psychomotor skills training of nursing students on self-confidence and anxiety
      in clinical decision-making and academic achievement.

      Design: It is an experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with two intervention
      groups.

      Setting: The study was conducted between December 2023 and January 2024 at the faculty of
      health sciences of a university in Turkey's central region.
    

Detailed description: 
      Background: Nursing education aims to provide students with knowledge and skills related to
      the profession and develop students in terms of personal characteristics such as clinical
      decision-making, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Innovative approaches and
      interactive learning strategies are needed during education periods to increase skills and
      personal development.

      Aim: The study aimed to investigate the effect of computer simulation and imagery learning
      techniques in psychomotor skills training of nursing students on self-confidence and anxiety
      in clinical decision-making and academic achievement.

      Design: It is an experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with two intervention
      groups.

      Setting: The study was conducted between December 2023 and January 2024 at the faculty of
      health sciences of a university in Turkey's central region.

      Methods: The Turkish version of the "Self-Confidence and Anxiety in Clinical Decision Making"
      scale was used at the beginning (pre-test) and end (post-test) of the four-week sessions of
      the interventions. Moreover, the "Academic Achievement Test" was used at the end of the
      interventions. Differences in mean scores between the groups were analyzed with mixed-design
      ANOVA.
    

Intervention name(s): Computer-assisted simulation technique training group; Imagery GROUP
Intervention type(s): Other; Other
Intervention description(s): After the training given with the demonstration method, the training videos on https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/departments/nursing-tpss/nursing-simulation-scenario-library.html were shown to the participants using interactive training methods in parallel with this training.; After the training given with the demonstration method, scenarios suitable for the imagery technique were prepared by the second trainer (Ö.S.A.) in parallel with this training and CAST training.
Other intervention name(s): CAST GROUP; Imagery technique group
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: It is an experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with two intervention groups.
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Basic Science
Keywords: Anxiety; Clinical decision-making; Simulation training; Nursing students