Aggression From the Perspective of Patients and Nurses

NCT ID: NCT05946720

Last Updated: 2023-07-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 97 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-04-14

Brief Summary

The research, was planned in a randomized controlled design, aiming to evaluate the effect of the training given to nurses working in psychiatric clinics on the use of aggression and BVC (Broset Violence Checklist) on the nurses' perceptions of aggression and the compliance of the use of BVC, which they evaluated for the patients watched in the videos, with the BVC determined by expert opinion.

The study was conducted in Adana Doctor Ekrem Tok Mental Health and Diseases Hospital between July 2021 and April 2022. A total of 97 nurses working in psychiatric clinics, 47 in the training group and 50 in the comparison group, participated in the study. A pre-test was administered to the nurses and nurses in the training group were randomized and given training including aggression and BVC use. After the training, a post-test was administered to all nurses.

Conditions

Aggression

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Taining group

Nurses in the training group were given training on aggression and the use of BVC.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Training including aggression and the use of BVC.

Intervention Type: OTHER

After obtaining verbal consent from the nurses who met the inclusion criteria of the study before the pre-test was applied to the nurses, the nurses who volunteered to participate in the study were randomized within their own clinic using the simple randomization method. For this, after the data collection form was distributed before the pre-test, the nurses were asked to write the letter that came to them on the data collection form and not forget it. In order for nurses to be included in the training or comparison group, the letter A, written on the closed papers in the box prepared for simple randomization, represents the Education group, and the letter B represents the comparison group.

Control group

Nurses in the control group were not trained, till the study ends.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Training including aggression and the use of BVC.

After obtaining verbal consent from the nurses who met the inclusion criteria of the study before the pre-test was applied to the nurses, the nurses who volunteered to participate in the study were randomized within their own clinic using the simple randomization method. For this, after the data collection form was distributed before the pre-test, the nurses were asked to write the letter that came to them on the data collection form and not forget it. In order for nurses to be included in the training or comparison group, the letter A, written on the closed papers in the box prepared for simple randomization, represents the Education group, and the letter B represents the comparison group.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the research,
• To have been working in the hospital where the research was conducted for at least 1 year,
• To have no vision, hearing and speech problems.

Exclusion Criteria

• To want to withdraw from the research at any stage of the research,
• Not completing or not being able to complete the research for any reason,
• To work in the filiation team during the research process.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

SEDA TEK SEVİNDİK

Ph.D, RN

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Çukurova Üniversitesi

Adana, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

117

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id