The Effect of Peer Counseling on Nursing Image (peer)

Mersin University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nursing

Treatments: Other: Peer Counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06195215

SKaya_002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this randomised controlled study was to examine the effect of peer counselling on first-year nursing students' perceptions of nursing image in orientation processes.The H0 hypothesis of the study is that there is no statistical difference between the scores of the image scale towards nursing between the experimental and control groups after the peer-assisted orientation process.

Full description

In the study, pre-test data will be collected from the first year students enrolled in the school by using the 'Sociodemographic Data Form' and the 'Image Scale for Nursing Profession'. According to the pre-test results, 108 first-year nursing students who scored 143 points or less from the Image Scale for Nursing Profession will be determined by an independent statistical expert. These students will then be assigned to the experimental (n=54) and control (n=54) groups by simple randomisation method. The students in the intervention group will be randomly grouped with 27 senior nursing students who voluntarily agree to participate in the project to provide peer counseling, and one senior student will counsel 2 first-year students. A 7-week counseling process of 1 hour per week will be applied to 54 students in the intervention group. The research will be finalised by applying the post-test to the control and intervention groups immediately after the intervention.

Enrollment: 108 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The experimental and control group to be included in the study

• Continuing their education in the first year of Mersin University Faculty of Nursing in the 2023-2024 Academic Year,
• Willing to participate in the study voluntarily, signing the informed consent form/written consent form,
• Does not have any cognitive, affective and verbal problems that prevent communication
• It is planned to include nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and lower.

Exclusion criteria

The experimental and control group to be excluded in the study

• Do not wish to participate as a volunteer, do not sign the informed consent form/written consent form
• Have a problem that prevents them from communicating cognitively, emotionally and verbally,
• It is planned to exclude nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and higher from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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108 participants in 2 patient groups

peer counselling

Experimental group

Description:

* Does not have any cognitive, affective and verbal problems that prevent communication * It is planned to include nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and lower. * The peer counselling process related to nursing image was applied to this group by 1 senior nursing student for 1 hour a week for 7 weeks. Before and immediately after the 7-week period, the nursing image scale is applied.

Treatment:

Other: Peer Counselling

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

* Does not have any cognitive, affective and verbal problems that prevent communication * It is planned to include nursing students with an Image Scale for Nursing Profession score of 143 and lower. * No peer counselling process is applied to this group. Seven weeks after the first data collection, the final data are collected for the second time using the nursing image scale.