Clinical trial NCT06235060: The Effect of Two Dıfferent Technıques Used in Psychomotor Skılls Traınıng on Nursıng Students
Official title: The Effect of Two Dıfferent Technıques Used in Psychomotor Skılls Traınıng on Self-Confıdence And Anxıety in Clınıcal Decısıon-Makıng and Academıc Success of Nursıng Students: A Randomızed Controlled Trıal
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anxiety
Clinical Decision-making
Simulation Training
Nursing Students
Keywords: Anxiety
Clinical decision-making
Simulation training
Nursing students
Lead sponsor: Bozok University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-01-31
Enrollment: 74
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 35
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: It is an experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with two intervention groups.
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* taking the Fundamentals of Nursing course for the first time,
* being have to attend to the Fundamentals of Nursing course,
* having a GPA above 1.80,
* volunteering to participate in the study. It was determined that there were 96 students enrolled in the Fundamentals of Nursing course.

Exclusion Criteria:

* who did not attend regularly during the sessions

Primary outcomes:
measure: Primer Outcome
timeFrame: PRE TEST-POST TEST (1 month apart)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Secondary Outcome
timeFrame: post test (after 1 month)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Yozgat
country: Turkey
facility: Yozgat Bozok Univercity
city: Yozgat
country: Turkey
facility: Yozgat Bozok Universıty
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