The Effect of Creative Drama Education's Effects Tendencies and Emotion Management Skills

NCT ID: NCT06505785

Last Updated: 2024-07-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-03-30
• Study Completion Date: 2024-07-11

Brief Summary

An experiential and active approach to learning can be implemented in education in higher education through all the arts. In this context, one of the artistic methods that supports active and experiential learning is creative drama. Creative drama is an educational method that is designed to achieve specified cognitive, affective and psychomotor goals and has no age or subject restrictions.This study is planned to examine the effect of the creative drama method on student midwives' empathic tendencies and their ability to manage their emotions.

Detailed Description

An experiential and active approach to learning can be applied to higher education through all arts. One of the artistic methods that supports active and experiential learning in this context is creative drama. Creative drama is an educational method designed to impart specific cognitive, affective, and psychomotor objectives, without age or subject limitations. The importance of creative drama lies in its ability to teach through the most realistic experience, by doing and living, thereby enhancing achievement, learning, and retention. Creative drama can be used in midwifery education to bridge the gap between theory and practice, to engage students in group activities where they can explore care practices, events, and relationships, to help students discover knowledge gaps, and to provide deeper learning. It is believed that creative drama supports midwifery students' communication skills , reflective and ethical skills, and critical thinking. Through this method, students can increase their self-awareness, develop empathy by thinking like a patient, and experience the outcomes of midwifery care. Therefore, drama can be used in midwifery education to alleviate fears and anxieties related to clinical birth experiences and to develop empathic skills.

Communication, an essential element of our lives and the foundation of information exchange, plays a significant role in the patient-midwife relationship. Establishing healthy patient-midwife communication, which requires mutual respect, support, and trust, is indispensable for the treatment process. Empathic communication plays a critical role in midwifery, a profession that dates back as far as human existence. Empathy skills, which are crucial in the development of interpersonal communication, enable people to understand the situation of others and socialize with each other.

Birth is both a universal phenomenon and a unique experience. During this process, women need the support of others. Health professionals, especially midwives and obstetricians, have significant responsibilities in providing this support . One of the primary responsibilities of the midwife is to provide emotional and physical support to the woman during labor. To provide this support effectively, midwives need to have well-developed empathy skills. Empathy is the process of accurately understanding another person's feelings and thoughts by putting oneself in their place and communicating this understanding to them.

It is known that emotions are important factors influencing human behavior. Past emotions and the anticipation of future negative events can impact an individual's present. In emotion management, it is important to focus on the present, free from the influence of the past and future.

The management of emotions becomes particularly significant in professions involving a professional identity and human relationships. The healthcare sector is an area where direct and prolonged contact with people occurs, making communication and thus emotion management crucial. Among healthcare professionals, midwives are one of the professions that interact the most with patients or their relatives.

This study aims to examine the effect of the creative drama method on the empathic tendencies and emotion management skills of student midwives.

This research was planned as an experimental type with a pre-test, post-test control group.

Place and Time the Research Was Conducted This study is an experimental study to understand the effectiveness of drama education in developing empathic tendencies and emotion management skills. The research will be conducted experimentally (pretest-posttest design in double groups). Within the 12-week/2-hour training program, drama techniques such as role playing, improvisation, pantomime, making headlines and creating photo frames will be used. The research will be conducted between March 2024 and December 2024 with students who choose the Creative Drama course at Atatürk University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery.

Conditions

Creative Drama; Emotion Management Skills; Tendencies; Midwifery Student

Study Design

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

Study Groups

The cretive drama group

10 weeks, once a week, each session will last approximately 2 hours and will be facilitated by a trained instructor in creative drama.

Sessions will include role-playing, improvisation, and scenario-based activities focusing on midwifery care situations, communication with patients, and empathy development.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

The creative drama group

Intervention Type: OTHER

10 weeks, once a week, each session will last approximately 2 hours and will be facilitated by a trained instructor in creative drama.

Sessions will include role-playing, improvisation, and scenario-based activities focusing on midwifery care situations, communication with patients, and empathy development.

the control group

This group will consist of students who choose another elective course other than the creative drama course, and no interference will be made.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

The creative drama group

10 weeks, once a week, each session will last approximately 2 hours and will be facilitated by a trained instructor in creative drama.

Sessions will include role-playing, improvisation, and scenario-based activities focusing on midwifery care situations, communication with patients, and empathy development.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• No communication problems,
• Conscious,
• Choosing the creative drama course,
• Individuals who volunteer to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Communication problems,
• Unconscious,
• No choosing the creative drama course,
• Individuals who no volunteer to participate in the study

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Ataturk University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Esra Sayar

Dr

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Faculty Health Science

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Ataturk University

Locations

Ataturk Universty

Erzurum, Yakutiye, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

References

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Reference Type: BACKGROUND

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Reference Type: BACKGROUND

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Other Identifiers

AtaturkU-SBF-ES-00

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id