StudentsNCT06415513
The Effect of (ASMR) Videos on Sleep Quality and Stress Levels on Nursing Students
A study testing ASMR in people with Students and Nursing, run by Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
This study was planned to evaluate the effect of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos on sleep quality and stress levels of nursing students before clinical practice. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- What is being tested?
- ASMR
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 87 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 11 May 2024to 29 May 2024
- 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 18 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Over 18 years,
- illiterate,
- volunteer to participate in the study
- First-year nursing students who have not done clinical practice before
Who cannot join
- have done clinical practice before
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: The Effect of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) Videos on Sleep Quality and Stress Levels of Nursing Students Before First Clinical Practice
This study was planned to evaluate the effect of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos on sleep quality and stress levels of nursing students before clinical practice.
Read the detailed description
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a physiological phenomenon that describes a tingling sensation caused by specific visual and auditory triggers, usually starting on the scalp and travelling down the body. These trigger stimuli are often socially intimate in nature and often involve repetition of movements and/or sounds.
According to studies conducted among university students, it is generally stated that university students have poor sleep quality and sleep inadequately. Negative impact on students' sleep quality is a factor that causes them to experience stress. Nursing students are faced with an important source of stress due to the various situations they encounter in the education and practice processes. Although clinical education offers rich opportunities to gain hands-on experience, it is reported that the clinical component of nursing education provides the highest source of stress for nursing students.
This study was planned to evaluate the effect of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos on sleep quality and stress levels of nursing students before clinical practice.
- Being tested
- ASMR
- Keywords
- Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, anxiety, sleep
- Medical subject headings
- Anxiety Disorders
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
ASMROther
We used 7 ASMR videos published on the most watched ASMR channel on the YouTube platform, in which applications such as hair combing, brushing, massaging the head are applied sequentially and repeatedly, and there is no speech.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| intervention | Experimental | For 7 days, they were asked to watch ASMR videos for 20-30 minutes every evening at 22:00 before going to bed. The videos were downloaded to the student's computer or phone in advance, the student was asked to switch his/her phone to airplane mode to block the stimuli during the viewing, to watch these videos with headphones, to reduce the sounds in the room as much as possible, to lie on his/her bed and to wear comfortable clothes. Receives: Other: ASMR |
| control | No intervention | no intervention |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
sleep quality
PUKI was accepted in determining sleep quality, and in 1989 and its validity and reliability were determined (Cronbach's alpha=0.80). In our country, the validity and reliability study was carried out by Ağargün et al. (16) and the Cronbach alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.80. The scale is a four-point Likert type and contains a total of 24 questions; subjective sleep quality (component 1), sleep latency (component 2), sleep duration (component 3), habitual sleep efficiency (component 4), sleep disturbance (component 5), use of sleeping pills (component 6) and daytime dysfunction (component 3) 7) consists of 7 components. The sum of the seven component scores gives the total PUKI score. The response of each is scored between 0-3 according to symptom frequency. The total score has a value between 0-21.
Measured: In the study, The sleep quality of the students in the intervention group was measured before the interventions and on the 8th day after the 7-day interventions. Sleep quality of the students in the control group was measured on day 1 and day 8.
anxiety
State - Trait Anxiety Inventory-STAI. It was developed by Spielberger et al. (1970). The scale consists of two parts: the State Anxiety Inventory and Trait Anxiety Inventory. The State Anxiety Inventory determines how the individual feels at a certain moment and under certain conditions, and the Trait Anxiety Inventory determines how the individual feels regardless of the situation and conditions. Each scale contains two types of statements with 20 items. In the state anxiety scale, the responses were evaluated with a 4-point scale (never, a little, a lot, completely). In the trait anxiety scale, the answers of the participants were measured with a 4-point scale (never, sometimes, very often, almost always). The total score value obtained from both scales varies between 20 and 80. A high score indicates a high level of anxiety and a low score indicates a low level of anxiety.
Measured: In the study, The anxiety of the students in the intervention group was measured before the interventions and on the 8th day after the 7-day interventions. Anxiety of the students in the control group was measured on day 1 and day 8.
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted16 May 2024
- Study start11 May 2024
- Primary completion29 May 2024
- Study completion29 May 2024
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (3)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for 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
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- intervention group: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response; control group: no intervention
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 87 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Ayşe Kabuk, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06415513
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 23.02.2024/420449
- Status last verified
- May 2025
- First submitted
- 10 May 2024
- Last updated
- 29 May 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No: ı want to share my research protocol after six months.
Publications
Buysse DJ, Reynolds CF 3rd, Monk TH, Berman SR, Kupfer DJ. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index: a new instrument for psychiatric practice and research. Psychiatry Res. 1989 May;28(2):193-213. doi: 10.1016/0165-1781(89)90047-4.
PubMed 2748771Stinson C, Curl ED, Hale G, Knight S, Pipkins C, Hall I, White K, Thompson N, Wright C. Mindfulness Meditation and Anxiety in Nursing Students. Nurs Educ Perspect. 2020 Jul/Aug;41(4):244-245. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000635.
PubMed 32168090Smejka T, Wiggs L. The effects of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos on arousal and mood in adults with and without depression and insomnia. J Affect Disord. 2022 Mar 15;301:60-67. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.12.015. Epub 2021 Dec 13.
PubMed 34915083
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 29 May 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Effect of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) Videos on Sleep Quality and Stress Levels of Nursing Students Before First Clinical Practice
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06415513
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 23.02.2024/420449
- Keywords
- Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, anxiety, sleep
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 87 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 11 May 2024 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 29 May 2024 (actual)
- Study completion
- 29 May 2024 (actual)
- First posted
- 16 May 2024 (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.
This study was planned to evaluate the effect of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos on sleep quality and stress levels of nursing students before clinical practice.
Detailed description
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a physiological phenomenon that describes a tingling sensation caused by specific visual and auditory triggers, usually starting on the scalp and travelling down the body. These trigger stimuli are often socially intimate in nature and often involve repetition of movements and/or sounds.
According to studies conducted among university students, it is generally stated that university students have poor sleep quality and sleep inadequately. Negative impact on students' sleep quality is a factor that causes them to experience stress. Nursing students are faced with an important source of stress due to the various situations they encounter in the education and practice processes. Although clinical education offers rich opportunities to gain hands-on experience, it is reported that the clinical component of nursing education provides the highest source of stress for nursing students.
This study was planned to evaluate the effect of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos on sleep quality and stress levels of nursing students before clinical practice.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- intervention group: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response; control group: no intervention
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| intervention | Experimental | Other: ASMRFor 7 days, they were asked to watch ASMR videos for 20-30 minutes every evening at 22:00 before going to bed. The videos were downloaded to the student's computer or phone in advance, the student was asked to switch his/her phone to airplane mode to block the stimuli during the viewing, to watch these videos with headphones, to reduce the sounds in the room as much as possible, to lie on his/her bed and to wear comfortable clothes. |
| control | No intervention | –no intervention |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Over 18 years,
- illiterate,
- volunteer to participate in the study
- First-year nursing students who have not done clinical practice before
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- have done clinical practice before
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ASMRWe used 7 ASMR videos published on the most watched ASMR channel on the YouTube platform, in which applications such as hair combing, brushing, massaging the head are applied sequentially and repeatedly, and there is no speech. | Other | intervention |
Primary outcome
sleep quality
Time frame: In the study, The sleep quality of the students in the intervention group was measured before the interventions and on the 8th day after the 7-day interventions. Sleep quality of the students in the control group was measured on day 1 and day 8.
PUKI was accepted in determining sleep quality, and in 1989 and its validity and reliability were determined (Cronbach's alpha=0.80). In our country, the validity and reliability study was carried out by Ağargün et al. (16) and the Cronbach alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.80. The scale is a four-point Likert type and contains a total of 24 questions; subjective sleep quality (component 1), sleep latency (component 2), sleep duration (component 3), habitual sleep efficiency (component 4), sleep disturbance (component 5), use of sleeping pills (component 6) and daytime dysfunction (component 3) 7) consists of 7 components. The sum of the seven component scores gives the total PUKI score. The response of each is scored between 0-3 according to symptom frequency. The total score has a value between 0-21.
anxiety
Time frame: In the study, The anxiety of the students in the intervention group was measured before the interventions and on the 8th day after the 7-day interventions. Anxiety of the students in the control group was measured on day 1 and day 8.
State - Trait Anxiety Inventory-STAI. It was developed by Spielberger et al. (1970). The scale consists of two parts: the State Anxiety Inventory and Trait Anxiety Inventory. The State Anxiety Inventory determines how the individual feels at a certain moment and under certain conditions, and the Trait Anxiety Inventory determines how the individual feels regardless of the situation and conditions. Each scale contains two types of statements with 20 items. In the state anxiety scale, the responses were evaluated with a 4-point scale (never, a little, a lot, completely). In the trait anxiety scale, the answers of the participants were measured with a 4-point scale (never, sometimes, very often, almost always). The total score value obtained from both scales varies between 20 and 80. A high score indicates a high level of anxiety and a low score indicates a low level of anxiety.
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 29 May 2025.
- Results publication: PubMed 2748771Buysse DJ, Reynolds CF 3rd, Monk TH, Berman SR, Kupfer DJ. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index: a new instrument for psychiatric practice and research. Psychiatry Res. 1989 May;28(2):193-213. doi: 10.1016/0165-1781(89)90047-4.
- Results publication: PubMed 32168090Stinson C, Curl ED, Hale G, Knight S, Pipkins C, Hall I, White K, Thompson N, Wright C. Mindfulness Meditation and Anxiety in Nursing Students. Nurs Educ Perspect. 2020 Jul/Aug;41(4):244-245. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000635.
- Results publication: PubMed 34915083Smejka T, Wiggs L. The effects of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos on arousal and mood in adults with and without depression and insomnia. J Affect Disord. 2022 Mar 15;301:60-67. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.12.015. Epub 2021 Dec 13.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No. ı want to share my research protocol after six months.
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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.
The record lists no contact. Use the official record to reach the sponsor.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing ASMR in people with Students and Nursing, run by Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University 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 4 inclusion and 1 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 29 May 2025. 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?
sleep quality (time frame: In the study, The sleep quality of the students in the intervention group was measured before the interventions and on the 8th day after the 7-day interventions. Sleep quality of the students in the control group was measured on day 1 and day 8.). 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?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT06415513, which also lists 3 linked publications.
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 29 May 2025.