Clinical trial NCT06959875: Therapeutic Communication Training in Perinatal Loss: Simulation-Based Approaches
Official title: Different Methods in Therapeutic Communication Training for Student Nurses in the Perinatal Loss: High-Fidelity Simulation and Paper - Pencil Simulation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Simulation-based Learning
Communication Skills
Paper-Pencil Simulation
High-fidelity Simulation
Lead sponsor: Acibadem University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-05-07
Enrollment: 70
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 24
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Parallel Assignment Randomized Controlled Experimental Design
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study aims to evaluate the effect of simulation-based education on nursing students' therapeutic communication skills in managing perinatal loss. Perinatal loss, defined as early fetal loss before 20 weeks of gestation and late fetal loss at or after 20 weeks, is a traumatic experience that significantly impacts parents, especially mothers, on biological, psychological, social, and spiritual levels. Prolonged grief reactions can lead to complicated grief, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, and relationship disturbances. Nursing students are trained to adopt a biopsychosocial approach in patient care and are expected to support grieving individuals by normalizing emotions, identifying coping strategies, and facilitating healthy grief processing. Simulation is recognized as an effective teaching method in developing communication and therapeutic skills among nursing students. This research investigates how simulation-based training can enhance students' therapeutic communication competencies when supporting individuals experiencing perinatal loss.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Completion of the theoretical course on postpartum care in the Women's Health and Diseases Nursing course.
* Successful completion of the Human Behavior and Communication course.
* Completion of training on perinatal grief and therapeutic communication skills prior to the simulation training.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Medical or Psychological Conditions Impacting Communication
* Incomplete Training or Lack of Pre-Simulation Education
* Inability to Participate in the Debriefing Session
* Language Barriers

Primary outcomes:
measure: Therapeutic Communication Skills Performance
timeFrame: Immediately during scenario completion (Day 1)
measure: Perceived Communication Skills Self-Assessment
timeFrame: Immediately before debriefing session (Day 1)
measure: Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale (SCLS)
timeFrame: Immediately after debriefing session (Day 1)
measure: Simulation Execution Checklist Evaluation
timeFrame: During scenario execution (Day 1)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Reflection on Learning and Communication Effectiveness
timeFrame: Immediately after debriefing session (Day 1)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ataşehir
country: Turkey
facility: Merve Coşkun
state: İstanbul
Study officials:
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