The Effect of Virtual Reality Training on Mental Health Literacy and Stigma (MHLS)

Uskudar University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Literacy; Mental Health Disorder; Stigma, Social

Treatments: Other: Vırtual Realıty Traınıng On Mental Health Lıteracy And Stıgma; Other: Classical Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06142916

2032

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: This study will be conducted to examine the effect of virtual reality training on nurses' mental health literacy and stigma level towards mental illnesses.

Design: The study is a randomized controlled experimental research. Method: The population of the research consists of 110 nurses working in a public hospital. Power analysis was performed with G* Power software to determine the number of nurses constituting the research sample. The sample size was determined as 25 people in each group. Considering that there may be data loss in the study, it is planned to include 30 people in the intervention group and 30 people in the control group. Nurses who volunteer to participate in the study and fill out the pre-test will be randomly assigned to the groups using the Statistical Analysis Software program to ensure random distribution to the intervention and control groups. Personal Information Form, Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) and Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers (OMS-HC) will be used in study data collection.

Hypotheses:

H1: The mental health literacy level of nurses who receive training with virtual reality is higher than nurses who receive classical training.

H2: The level of stigmatization towards mental illnesses of nurses trained with virtual reality is lower than nurses who received classical training.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being 18 years or older
• Becoming a nurse
• Being actively working in a public hospital in Istanbul
• Volunteering to participate in the study
• Not having worked in a psychiatric ward before

Exclusion criteria

Being under 18 years of age

• Not being a nurse
• Not actively working in the hospital where the study will be conducted
• Not volunteering to participate in the study
• Having worked in a psychiatric ward before

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

MHLS

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Vırtual Realıty Traınıng On Mental Health Lıteracy And Stıgma

CONTROL GROUP

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Classical Education