Mentoring Program for Nursing Students

Gazi University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mentoring; Nursing Students

Treatments: Behavioral: Peer Mentoring Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05800652

MTatu

Details and patient eligibility

About

University life is a challenging period for many students. University students mostly leave their families and live in crowded environments such as home and home. Research shows that students have difficulty in adapting to university life and often experience emotional, academic, professional and economic problems. Peer mentoring is one of the methods of learning and developing life skills in meeting the needs of university students.The peer mentoring intervention, which is used effectively in nursing education, provides benefits to both mentor and menene; It provides the opportunity to grow and improve by improving positive interaction between peers.It can be said that peer mentoring has a significant effect on students in line with the literature information. In this study, it was planned to examine the impact of the peer mentoring program applied on the perceived stress and self -confidence in order to ensure that the first year students of the nursing students adapt to the university life and the profession and to gain the necessary skills to survive in this process.

Full description

In this study, it was planned to examine the impact of the peer mentoring program applied on the perceived stress and self -confidence in order to ensure that the first year students of the nursing students adapt to the university life and the profession and to gain the necessary skills to survive in this process. Study has been planned as a type of randomized controlled intervention type with pre -test and monitoring patterns, one of the quantitative research methods. 40 mentees (experiment = 20; control = 20) and 20 mentors were included in the study.12 -week mentoring program was applied to the mentees by the mentors. In the collection of research data, "Personal Information Form", "General Self -Qualification Scale", "Self -Confidence Scale" and "Perceived Stress Scale" were used. The measurements were taken 3 times:pre test, post-test and 3-months post-test.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17 to 22 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• volunteering to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• being a foreign national
• taking first-year courses repeatedly
• be in another ongoing mentoring or psychosocial support/counselling program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental: First-year nursing students (mentees) undergoing a mentoring program 20 mentees were included in the experimental group.The mentoring program focuses on developing students' life skills. The mentoring program continued for 12 weeks. In the mentoring program, it was expected that the mentors would make individual meeting(s) with the mentee they were matched with, face to face, online or over the phone, and share information and support every week. The frequency and duration of individual interviews were determined by the needs of the mentee.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Peer Mentoring Program

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No Intervention: Control group 20 mentees were included in the control group. After the follow-up test was applied to the students in the experimental group, a three-week mentoring program was applied to the control group.