The Effect of Creative Drama on Postmortem Care in Nursing Students

Abant Izzet Baysal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Creative Darama Group; Other: Classical Education Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05661500

AIBU-HEM-UZUN-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomized controlled including pretest, posttest and persistence test study is to examine the effect of creative drama method on student nurses' knowledge and skill levels related to postmortem care, learning permanence and satisfaction with the training method.

The main question it aims to answer are:

•Is the postmortem care training given to nursing students with the creative drama method effective on the level of knowledge and skills, the permanence of knowledge and skills and satisfaction with the training method? Participants will participate in an educational activity related to postmortem care. Researchers will compare it with the classical education method to see if postmortem care training given to nursing students with the creative drama method is effective.

Full description

The research will be carried out in the form of determining the preliminary knowledge of nursing third year students about postmortem care, providing education with classical education and creative drama methods, evaluating the educational outcomes and permanence in education for knowledge and skills, and determining their satisfaction with the educational methods.

Hypotheses of the research are as follows. H1: There is a difference between the knowledge scores of the experimental and control groups on postmortem care. Is there a difference between the creative drama method and classical education method and the satisfaction of postmortem care students with the training method? H2: There is a difference between the skill scores of the experimental and control groups for postmortem care. H

: There is a difference between the information persistence scores of the experimental and control groups related to postmortem care.

H4: There is a difference between the skill persistence scores of the experimental and control groups for postmortem care.

H5: There is a difference between the satisfaction of the experimental and control groups with the training method

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, 2022-2023 academic year fall semester to be studying in the third year.
• To have taken the "Principles of Nursing" course and the Loss-Death-Mourning process described in this context at the theoretical level.
• Agreeing to participate in the research.

Exclusion criteria

• Have previously received skills training related to postmortem care.
• Have previous clinical experience with postmortem care.
• Have previously provided postmortem care.
• Not agreeing to participate in the research.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Creative Darama Group

Experimental group

Description:

Postmortem care content including "The concept of death", "Postmortem Care", "Postmortem Care" and "Postmortem Care Practices" will be given to the students in the Creative Darama group in six sessions consisting of the preparation/warm-up, animation and evaluation stages of creative drama.

Treatment:

Other: Creative Darama Group

Classical Education Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Theoretical training titled "Post-Death Care" and "The Concept of Death", "Post-Death Changes", "Post-Death Care" and "Post-Death Care Practices" will be conveyed to the students in the classical education group by the researcher using the method of direct expression. After the theoretical training, the students will be taken to the application laboratory and post-mortem care applications will be explained with the demonstration method.

Treatment:

Other: Classical Education Group