Nursing StudentsNCT05117944
Drama-supported Patient Role Experience of Nursing Students
A study testing drama-supported "patient role" experience in people with Nursing Students and Empathy, run by Gulden Basit at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
"Empathy", one of the skills required by the nursing profession, has an important place in the patient-nurse relationship. Considered as the most basic motivation of altruistic behaviour, empathy requires recognizing the emotional states of others and understanding their needs. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any ageHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Nursing Students, Empathy, Altruism
- What is being tested?
- drama-supported "patient role" experience
- Type of treatment
- Pill or oral medicine
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 52 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 9 Oct 2021to 9 Feb 2022
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages Any age
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- second-year nursing student
Who cannot join
- have a history of hospitalization
- have a chronic disease
- working as a nurse
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Turkey (Türkiye)1 site
Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing
Konya
About this study
Official title: The Effect of Drama-supported "Patient Role" Experience on Nursing Students' Empathy and Altruism Levels: a Randomized Controlled Study
"Empathy", one of the skills required by the nursing profession, has an important place in the patient-nurse relationship. Considered as the most basic motivation of altruistic behaviour, empathy requires recognizing the emotional states of others and understanding their needs. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of drama-supported "patient role" experience on nursing students' empathy and altruism levels. Method: This research was designed as a pretest-posttest regular parallel-group, randomized controlled experiments. The research will be carried out with students studying in Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing, 2nd grade, without a history of hospitalization and chronic disease and who agreed to participate in the research. Data will be collected using the Datasheet, Altruism Scale, and Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students (JESNS). The data will be analyzed in the SPSS program.
Read the detailed description
This research was designed as a pretest-posttest regular parallel-group, a randomized controlled experimental study to determine the effect of drama-supported "patient role" experience on nursing students' empathy and altruism levels.
The hypotheses of the research; H1_0: The nursing students' empathy levels who experienced the drama-supported "patient role" were not different from those in the control group.
H1_1: The nursing students' empathy levels who experienced the drama-supported "patient role" were different from those in the control group.
H2_0: The altruism levels of the nursing students who experienced the drama-supported "patient role" were not different from those in the control group.
H2_1: The altruism levels of the nursing students who experienced the drama-supported "patient role" differed from those in the control group.
The place and features of the research:
The research will be carried out at Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing. There is a nursing practice skill laboratory consisting of 3 rooms and ten beds in the faculty building. Accordingly, it is appropriate to research a laboratory environment.
Study group:
The study group consists of second-year students (N=158) studying at Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Nursing, Department of Nursing in the 2021-2022 academic year.
The ethical dimension of research Necessary permissions were obtained from Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Medical Faculty, Non-Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Research Ethics Committee (date/decision no: 22.05.2020/2536) and Necmettin Erbakan University Nursing Faculty for the implementation of the study. Written permission was obtained from Aygül Yanık, who conducted the Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students (2014). Written permission was obtained from Mr Ümmet, Ekşi, and Otrar, who developed the Altruism Scale (2013). Informed Consent will be obtained from the students participating in the research before starting the application. After the implementation of the study, training on empathy and altruism in nursing will be organized, and a certificate of participation will be given to all students participating in the research.
Data collection:
The data of the research will be collected between November 2021 and February 2022. Students who accept the study will fill out the datasheet, Altruism Scale (pretest) and Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students (pretest) in the classroom environment. Students will be randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups, stratified by gender (random.org will generate random numbers). Students in the intervention group will attend 3-hour drama workshops before the "patient role" experience. After the students experience the patient role under the supervision of researchers in the skills laboratories of Necmettin Erbakan University Nursing Faculty, they will refill the Altruism Scale and the empathy scale as a posttest (1 month after the intervention). The scales will be filled again at the end of the 3rd month to monitor the change in the empathy and altruism levels of the students. Students in the control group will fill out the Introductory Characteristics Form, the Altruism Scale and the Empathy Scale simultaneously with the intervention group, without any intervention, and then the Altruism Scale and the Empathy Scale at the end of the 1st and 3rd months. Due to ethical reasons, after the research data is collected, willing students in the control group will experience the patient role.
Statistical analysis of data:
Parametric or nonparametric tests will be applied according to descriptive statistics such as the number per cent mean standard deviation in the SPSS (Statistical Package For Social Science) program and normality test results of the data. The results obtained will be interpreted according to the significance level of p <0.05.
- Conditions
- Nursing Students, Empathy, Altruism, Patient
- Being tested
- drama-supported "patient role" experience
- Keywords
- nursing, nursing student, nursing education, empathy, altruism, patient, drama
- Medical subject headings
- Altruism
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
drama-supported "patient role" experienceOther
The students participated in 3 hours of drama activities and played the role of a patient whose basic needs such as nutrition, dressing and oral care were met by the nurse, lying down for 4 hours in the skills laboratory.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | Experimental | Students in the intervention group will act as the patient and act out the case given to them. Nursing care to be provided by a professional nurse to the student who will play the role of the patient in line with the case content includes helping the patient (student) eat, perform personal hygiene (oral care, etc.), dress and move. The case content will not be shared with the students in advance, and the student will not need to make any preliminary preparations. However, ten minutes before the start of the practice, the situations that are expected to be portrayed as the patient specified in the case will be explained to the students. The skills laboratory will be used as three separate patient rooms (with two or three patients), in which students in the role of inpatient will receive care from a professional nurse. Each student will experience the patient role only once. Receives: Other: drama-supported "patient role" experience |
| Control | No intervention | Students in the control group will fill in the datasheet, Altruism Scale and Empathy Scale simultaneously with the intervention group, without any intervention, and then the Altruism Scale and Empathy Scale at the 1st and 3rd months. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
The Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students
- The Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students: Hojat et al. (2001) for physicians and adapted for nursing students by Ward (2009). The scale for nursing students was adapted to Turkish by Yanık and Saygılı (2014), and its validity and reliability were established. The original scale consisted of 20 items and three sub-dimensions. The Turkish version consists of 3 sub-dimensions (catching the patient's point of view, compassionate care, putting yourself in the patient's place) and 18 items, as in the original. The scale is a 7-point Likert type (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree) and is scored between 18-126. Items 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18 and 19 are reverse scored on the scale. The higher the score, the higher the level of empathy. It has been reported that the total Cronbach alpha value of the scale was calculated as 0.73. This scale will be filled in during the pre-test, post-test and follow-up phases of the research
Measured: Change from empathy levels of students at one and third months from baseline
Altruism Scale
- Altruism Scale: The scale developed by Ümmet, Ekşi, and Otrar (2013) to measure the altruistic behaviours of individuals has seven sub-dimensions (participation in voluntary activities, financial assistance, assistance in traumatic situations, assistance to the elderly/patients, assistance based on physical strength, in education process). It is a 5-point Likert-type scale (1=I strongly disagree, 2=Disagree, 3=I am undecided, 4=I agree, 5=I totally agree) consisting of 38 items (help, help arising from a sense of closeness) and 38 items. The total Cronbach Alpha value of the scale was stated as 0.81. There is no reverse item and cut-off point in the scale, and a high score (min: 38- max: 190) indicates high altruism. This scale will be filled in during the pre-test, post-test and follow-up stages of the research.
Measured: Change from alturism levels of students at one and third months from baseline.
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted11 Nov 2021
- Study start9 Oct 2021
- Primary completion9 Feb 2022
- Study completion9 Feb 2022
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Nursing StudentsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Basic science
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 52 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Gulden Basit
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Necmettin Erbakan University
- Responsible party
- Sponsor-investigator, Gulden Basit, Necmettin Erbakan University
- Investigators
- Gülden Basit, RN, PhD, Principal investigator, Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05117944
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 21129001
- Status last verified
- Feb 2022
- First submitted
- 21 Oct 2021
- Last updated
- 23 Feb 2022
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 23 Feb 2022. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Effect of Drama-supported "Patient Role" Experience on Nursing Students' Empathy and Altruism Levels: a Randomized Controlled Study
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05117944
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 21129001
- Conditions
- Nursing Students, Empathy, Altruism, Patient
- Keywords
- nursing, nursing student, nursing education, empathy, altruism, patient, drama
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 52 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Gulden BasitUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Necmettin Erbakan University
- Study start
- 9 Oct 2021 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 9 Feb 2022 (actual)
- Study completion
- 9 Feb 2022 (actual)
- First posted
- 11 Nov 2021 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
"Empathy", one of the skills required by the nursing profession, has an important place in the patient-nurse relationship. Considered as the most basic motivation of altruistic behaviour, empathy requires recognizing the emotional states of others and understanding their needs. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of drama-supported "patient role" experience on nursing students' empathy and altruism levels. Method: This research was designed as a pretest-posttest regular parallel-group, randomized controlled experiments. The research will be carried out with students studying in Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing, 2nd grade, without a history of hospitalization and chronic disease and who agreed to participate in the research. Data will be collected using the Datasheet, Altruism Scale, and Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students (JESNS). The data will be analyzed in the SPSS program.
Detailed description
This research was designed as a pretest-posttest regular parallel-group, a randomized controlled experimental study to determine the effect of drama-supported "patient role" experience on nursing students' empathy and altruism levels.
The hypotheses of the research; H1_0: The nursing students' empathy levels who experienced the drama-supported "patient role" were not different from those in the control group.
H1_1: The nursing students' empathy levels who experienced the drama-supported "patient role" were different from those in the control group.
H2_0: The altruism levels of the nursing students who experienced the drama-supported "patient role" were not different from those in the control group.
H2_1: The altruism levels of the nursing students who experienced the drama-supported "patient role" differed from those in the control group.
The place and features of the research:
The research will be carried out at Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing. There is a nursing practice skill laboratory consisting of 3 rooms and ten beds in the faculty building. Accordingly, it is appropriate to research a laboratory environment.
Study group:
The study group consists of second-year students (N=158) studying at Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Nursing, Department of Nursing in the 2021-2022 academic year.
The ethical dimension of research Necessary permissions were obtained from Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Medical Faculty, Non-Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Research Ethics Committee (date/decision no: 22.05.2020/2536) and Necmettin Erbakan University Nursing Faculty for the implementation of the study. Written permission was obtained from Aygül Yanık, who conducted the Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students (2014). Written permission was obtained from Mr Ümmet, Ekşi, and Otrar, who developed the Altruism Scale (2013). Informed Consent will be obtained from the students participating in the research before starting the application. After the implementation of the study, training on empathy and altruism in nursing will be organized, and a certificate of participation will be given to all students participating in the research.
Data collection:
The data of the research will be collected between November 2021 and February 2022. Students who accept the study will fill out the datasheet, Altruism Scale (pretest) and Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students (pretest) in the classroom environment. Students will be randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups, stratified by gender (random.org will generate random numbers). Students in the intervention group will attend 3-hour drama workshops before the "patient role" experience. After the students experience the patient role under the supervision of researchers in the skills laboratories of Necmettin Erbakan University Nursing Faculty, they will refill the Altruism Scale and the empathy scale as a posttest (1 month after the intervention). The scales will be filled again at the end of the 3rd month to monitor the change in the empathy and altruism levels of the students. Students in the control group will fill out the Introductory Characteristics Form, the Altruism Scale and the Empathy Scale simultaneously with the intervention group, without any intervention, and then the Altruism Scale and the Empathy Scale at the end of the 1st and 3rd months. Due to ethical reasons, after the research data is collected, willing students in the control group will experience the patient role.
Statistical analysis of data:
Parametric or nonparametric tests will be applied according to descriptive statistics such as the number per cent mean standard deviation in the SPSS (Statistical Package For Social Science) program and normality test results of the data. The results obtained will be interpreted according to the significance level of p <0.05.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Basic science
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | Experimental | Other: drama-supported "patient role" experienceStudents in the intervention group will act as the patient and act out the case given to them. Nursing care to be provided by a professional nurse to the student who will play the role of the patient in line with the case content includes helping the patient (student) eat, perform personal hygiene (oral care, etc.), dress and move. The case content will not be shared with the students in advance, and the student will not need to make any preliminary preparations. However, ten minutes before the start of the practice, the situations that are expected to be portrayed as the patient specified in the case will be explained to the students. The skills laboratory will be used as three separate patient rooms (with two or three patients), in which students in the role of inpatient will receive care from a professional nurse. Each student will experience the patient role only once. |
| Control | No intervention | –Students in the control group will fill in the datasheet, Altruism Scale and Empathy Scale simultaneously with the intervention group, without any intervention, and then the Altruism Scale and Empathy Scale at the 1st and 3rd months. |
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- second-year nursing student
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- have a history of hospitalization
- have a chronic disease
- working as a nurse
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| drama-supported "patient role" experienceThe students participated in 3 hours of drama activities and played the role of a patient whose basic needs such as nutrition, dressing and oral care were met by the nurse, lying down for 4 hours in the skills laboratory. | Other | Drama |
Primary outcome
The Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students
Time frame: Change from empathy levels of students at one and third months from baseline
1. The Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students: Hojat et al. (2001) for physicians and adapted for nursing students by Ward (2009). The scale for nursing students was adapted to Turkish by Yanık and Saygılı (2014), and its validity and reliability were established. The original scale consisted of 20 items and three sub-dimensions. The Turkish version consists of 3 sub-dimensions (catching the patient's point of view, compassionate care, putting yourself in the patient's place) and 18 items, as in the original. The scale is a 7-point Likert type (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree) and is scored between 18-126. Items 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18 and 19 are reverse scored on the scale. The higher the score, the higher the level of empathy. It has been reported that the total Cronbach alpha value of the scale was calculated as 0.73. This scale will be filled in during the pre-test, post-test and follow-up phases of the research
Altruism Scale
Time frame: Change from alturism levels of students at one and third months from baseline.
2. Altruism Scale: The scale developed by Ümmet, Ekşi, and Otrar (2013) to measure the altruistic behaviours of individuals has seven sub-dimensions (participation in voluntary activities, financial assistance, assistance in traumatic situations, assistance to the elderly/patients, assistance based on physical strength, in education process). It is a 5-point Likert-type scale (1=I strongly disagree, 2=Disagree, 3=I am undecided, 4=I agree, 5=I totally agree) consisting of 38 items (help, help arising from a sense of closeness) and 38 items. The total Cronbach Alpha value of the scale was stated as 0.81. There is no reverse item and cut-off point in the scale, and a high score (min: 38- max: 190) indicates high altruism. This scale will be filled in during the pre-test, post-test and follow-up stages of the research.
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 23 Feb 2022.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Gülden Basit, RN, PhD principal investigator
Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing drama-supported "patient role" experience in people with Nursing Students and Empathy, run by Gulden Basit at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 23 Feb 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
The Jefferson Empathy Scale for Nursing Students (time frame: Change from empathy levels of students at one and third months from baseline). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 23 Feb 2022.