Sandplay Activity in Psychiatry Clinic (SAPC)

Akdeniz University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Anxiety

Sandplay Therapy

Treatments

Other: Routine Care

Behavioral: Sandplay activity

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05073289

SSoysal

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research was conducted to examine the effect of sandplay activity on anxiety and well-being levels in patients in psychiatric clinics.

The research was carried out in Isparta Süleyman Demirel University Psychiatric Clinic as a single-blind randomized controlled experimental study in the pre-test, final-test order between 2020-2021. Ethical permission was obtained from the Clinical Research Ethics Committee and application permission from the institution for pre-research. 63 patients (intervention-32 and control-31) selected by block randomization method formed the universe of the study. No intervention was applied to the control group. A preliminary test and a final test were performed two days apart, one hour apart on the first and fourth days. Two sessions of sandplay activity were applied to the intervention group with a decongest of two days, and each session was pre-tested. The data was collected using "The Personal Information Form", "The Spielberger Status Anxiety" inventory, and "Well-Being Star Scale" and also data showed normal distribution. In statistical analysis, T-Test, Chi-Square Test, pearson correlation test was used dependent and independent groups.

For the purpose of the research, the hypotheses of the research are as follows::

Hypothesis (H1): after intervention, anxiety levels of patients who underwent sandplay activity (in a psychiatric clinic) are lower than in the control grouproup
Hypothesis (H1): after intervention the level of well-being of patients undergoing sand play activity (in a psychiatric clinic) is higher than that of the control group.
Hypothesis (H1): there is a negative correlation between the level of anxiety and the level of well-being in psychiatric clinics who sandplay activity is practiced and not practiced.

This research is Turkish language.

Enrollment

64 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria Being over 18 years old, Volunteering to participate, Not having a defect in the ability to evaluate and reason the truth, Not having hearing, understanding, and speaking problems, Not have a physical disability

Exclusion Criteria from Research To be involved in another study on a similar experimental subject Being on the first day of hospitalization and on the day of discharge

Removing Criteria State their willingness to leave the research voluntarily Transfer to another place and/or unscheduled early discharge