Intergroup Contact Intervention for Nursing Undergraduates to Improve Aging Stereotype

Huzhou University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging; Ageism

Treatments: Other: Intergroup contact training; Other: Regular course training only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06615219

2022025.

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to investigate the effects of intergroup contact training on the levels of aging stereotypes, intergroup anxiety, and willingness to engage in geriatric nursing work among undergraduate nursing students.

Full description

This research was designed as a pre-test-post-test randomized controlled experimental study. Nursing students from a university in Hangzhou, China served as the research subjects, who were randomly assigned to the experimental or control group. The control group received training in the regular course and was given compensatory intervention after the experiment, while the experimental group received intergroup contact training (the regular course combined with intergroup contact content). Such training was carried out in the forms of both individual and group interventions for a duration of 12 weeks. The levels of aging stereotypes, intergroup anxiety, and the willingness to engage in geriatric nursing among the nursing students were investigated before and after the training. Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Shapiro-Wilk, T-test, Wilcoxon signed ranks tests, and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to analyze the data.

Enrollment: 126 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the nursing program
• not yet enrolled in a geriatric nursing course
• agreed to participate in this study and signed an informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

• students in the nursing program pursuing a bachelor degree through a vocational-to-degree pathway
• Students who have taken a break from their studies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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126 participants in 2 patient groups

Intergroup contact training + Regular course training

Experimental group

Description:

In addition to the regular curriculum, the experimental group of nursing students were required to receive the intervention program developed by this study.

Treatment:

Other: Intergroup contact training

Regular course training only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Nursing undergraduates in the control group received regular course teaching and practical activities, including geriatric nursing, daily courses and community activities.

Treatment:

Other: Regular course training only