Effect of Reflective Thinking Method on Ethical Decision Making, Professional Values and Compassion Level

NCT ID: NCT06675669

Last Updated: 2024-11-05

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

84 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-11-22

Study Completion Date

2025-03-31

Brief Summary

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This randomized controlled study aimed to determine the effect of the reflective thinking method used in ethics education on ethical decision making, professional values, and compassion levels in nursing students.The hypotheses of the study are as follows:

H1.1. There is a difference in ethical decision-making average scores between students who were applied the reflection method in ethics education and students in the control group.

H1.2. There is a difference in professional values average scores between students who were applied the reflection method in ethics education and students in the control group.

H1.3. There is a difference in compassion average scores between students who were applied the reflection method in ethics education and students in the control group.

Detailed Description

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The research will be conducted as a pre-test-post-test, parallel group randomized controlled experimental design. The sample of the research to be conducted at Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Nursing consists of 84 students. Students who meet the inclusion criteria will be assigned to the intervention and control groups by the block randomization method. The intervention group will be given ethics training with the reflective thinking method, while the control group will be given standard ethics training. The research data will be collected between November 22, 2024 and March 31, 2025 using the Student Information Form, Nursing Ethical Dilemma Test, Professional Values Scale and Compassion Scale.

Conditions

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Ethical Decision Making Professional Values Compassion

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Reflective thinking

Discussion sessions will be held once a week for 7 weeks within the scope of the Professional Ethics Course for the students in the intervention group. For the discussion sessions, the students will be divided into 4 groups of 10-11 people. Separate 1-hour discussion sessions will be held with each group.

A training session will be held with the students in the intervention group in the first week (November 22,2024). In this session; the researchers will inform the students about the reflective thinking technique. In the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th weeks (January 03, 2025), the students will come to class by writing an event/situation they encountered during their hospital internship in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing course, which they are currently doing clinical practice. During the class hour, the researcher will determine one of the events/situations written by the students and will discuss it in the group.Follow-up data will be collected after 3 months (March 31,2025).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Reflective thinking method

Intervention Type OTHER

It will be applied to students in the initiative group for 1 hour per week for 7 weeks.

Control

No application will be made to the students in the control group. These students will be given standard education for 7 weeks (Between November 22, 2024 and January 03, 2025).

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Reflective thinking method

It will be applied to students in the initiative group for 1 hour per week for 7 weeks.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Being between the ages of 18-65
* Being registered in the Professional Ethics course
* Having participated in the theoretical part of the Professional Ethics course
* Being volunteering to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria

* Having taken the Professional Ethics course before
* Working as a healthcare professional
* Being a foreign national
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Necmettin Erbakan University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Serpil SU

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

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Serpil SU, PhD, RN

Role: CONTACT

+9 05052611380

Other Identifiers

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NecErbakanU

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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