Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Nature Sounds in Nursing Students

TC Erciyes University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Nature Sounds; Other: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04409938

121

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of PMR and nature sounds on nursing students' BPM skills, and anxiety levels and vital signs.

Methods: This was a randomized controlled experimental study conducted at the nursing department of the faculty of health sciences of a university. PMR participants rested for ten minutes between the sessions and then practiced PMR for 15 minutes. PMR+NS participants practiced PMR accompanied by nature sounds.

Full description

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of PMR and nature sounds on nursing students' BPM skills, and anxiety levels and vital signs.

Methods: This was a randomized controlled experimental study conducted at the nursing department of the faculty of health sciences of a university. PMR participants rested for ten minutes between the sessions and then practiced PMR for 15 minutes. PMR consisted of taking a deep breath five times and then clenching fists, raising the shoulders, bringing the forearms towards the body, stretching the triceps muscle, and tensing and relaxing the forehead, eye, chin, neck, chest, abdomen, back, hips, thigh, and feet muscles. The investigators made a video of exercises in a certain order and uploaded it to the television in the lab prior to the intervention. The investigators turned on the video during the intervention and asked the participants to follow the instructions for PMR exercises. PMR+NS participants practiced PMR accompanied by nature sounds.

Enrollment: 127 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. being a first-year nursing student
2. voluntary
3. participating in the theoretical part of the "Pulse and Blood Pressure Measurement" course and in lab practice.

Exclusion criteria

• not participating in the theoretical part of the "Pulse and Blood Pressure Measurement" course and in lab practice.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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127 participants in 3 patient groups

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Experimental group

Description:

PMR participants rested for ten minutes between the sessions and then practiced PMR for 15 minutes. PMR consisted of taking a deep breath five times and then clenching fists, raising the shoulders, bringing the forearms towards the body, stretching the triceps muscle, and tensing and relaxing the forehead, eye, chin, neck, chest, abdomen, back, hips, thigh, and feet muscles. The investigators made a video of exercises in a certain order and uploaded it to the television in the lab prior to the intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Progressive Muscle Relaxation with Nature Sounds

Experimental group

Description:

PMR+NS participants practiced PMR accompanied by nature sounds.

Treatment:

Other: Nature Sounds

Other: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Standard Practice

No Intervention group

Description:

The standard practice of the lab was made.