Effect of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Programme for Reducing the Stress Level of Nursing Student

Maltepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emotion Regulation; Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction; Other: continuing a routine life

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05100537

0051

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: This research was planned to determine the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction program on reducing the stress level and emotion regulation of nursing students.

Design: The research was planned as a pretest, posttest, follow-up and randomized controlled study in order to determine the effect of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program on the stress level and emotion regulation of nursing students.

Hypotheses: H1: The perceived stress level scores of nursing students in the intervention group participating in the mindfulness-based stress reduction program will decrease compared to the nursing students in the control group.

H2: The perceived stress level of the nursing students in the intervention group participating in the mindfulness-based stress reduction program will decrease according to their pretest scores.

H3: Emotion regulation strategies of nursing students in the intervention group participating in the mindfulness-based stress reduction program will differ from the nursing students in the control group.

H4: The posttest and follow-up emotion regulation strategies of nursing students in the intervention group participating in the mindfulness-based stress reduction program will differ from the pretest.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age range is 18-25 years old
• Being a student in the second or third year of the nursing department
• Regular attendance at school
• Not having a communication problem related to vision or hearing
• It was determined as having a score of 26 or more from the perceived stress scale.

Exclusion criteria

• Have a psychiatric illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Experimental group

Description:

The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program is a manualized course that includes meditation, relaxing movement, and breathing. A certified MBSR instructor will teach the courses in a group-based format for 120 minute sessions, once per week for eight weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

CONTROL GROUP

Active Comparator group

Description:

no intervention

Treatment:

Other: continuing a routine life