Effect of Reflective Thinking Method on Ethical Decision Making, Professional Values and Compassion Level

Necmettin Erbakan University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Ethical Decision Making; Compassion; Professional Values

Treatments: Other: Reflective thinking method

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06675669

NecErbakanU

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled study aimed to determine the effect of the reflective thinking method used in ethics education on ethical decision making, professional values, and compassion levels in nursing students.The hypotheses of the study are as follows:

H1.1. There is a difference in ethical decision-making average scores between students who were applied the reflection method in ethics education and students in the control group.

H1.2. There is a difference in professional values average scores between students who were applied the reflection method in ethics education and students in the control group.

H1.3. There is a difference in compassion average scores between students who were applied the reflection method in ethics education and students in the control group.

Full description

The research will be conducted as a pre-test-post-test, parallel group randomized controlled experimental design. The sample of the research to be conducted at Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing consists of 84 students. Students who meet the inclusion criteria will be assigned to the intervention and control groups by the block randomization method. The intervention group will be given ethics training with the reflective thinking method, while the control group will be given standard ethics training. The research data will be collected between November 22, 2024 and March 31, 2025 using the Student Information Form, Nursing Ethical Dilemma Test, Professional Values Scale and Compassion Scale.

Enrollment: 84 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being between the ages of 18-65
• Being registered in the Professional Ethics course
• Having participated in the theoretical part of the Professional Ethics course
• Being volunteering to participate in the research

Exclusion criteria

• Having taken the Professional Ethics course before
• Working as a healthcare professional
• Being a foreign national

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

Reflective thinking

Experimental group

Description:

Discussion sessions will be held once a week for 7 weeks within the scope of the Professional Ethics Course for the students in the intervention group. For the discussion sessions, the students will be divided into 4 groups of 10-11 people. Separate 1-hour discussion sessions will be held with each group. A training session will be held with the students in the intervention group in the first week (November 22,2024). In this session; the researchers will inform the students about the reflective thinking technique. In the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th weeks (January 03, 2025), the students will come to class by writing an event/situation they encountered during their hospital internship in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing course, which they are currently doing clinical practice. During the class hour, the researcher will determine one of the events/situations written by the students and will discuss it in the group.Follow-up data will be collected after 3 months (March 31,2025).

Treatment:

Other: Reflective thinking method

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No application will be made to the students in the control group. These students will be given standard education for 7 weeks (Between November 22, 2024 and January 03, 2025).