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NCT Number: NCT05290636

Communication Competence and Transdisciplinary Cooperation in Geriatric Nursing

The ability to communicate and cooperate effectively is essential in geriatric nursing. However, nursing teachers lacked the exploration of the development of this ability and teaching evaluation in previous studies. The investigators used a systematic process to investigate methods for achieving the following goals: 1. Cultivate a positive attitude toward the elderly among nursing students. 2. Improve nursing students' communication competence and interaction skills when providing advanced health care services. 3. Improve the teaching skills of professional nursing instructors.

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Key information

Conditions

Communication Behavior Competence

Age range

20 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Taipei, Taipei City, 112303, Taiwan

About this study

The ability to communicate and cooperate effectively is essential in geriatric nursing. However, nursing teachers lacked the exploration of the development of this ability and teaching evaluation in previous studies. The investigators used a systematic process to investigate methods for achieving the following goals: 1. Cultivate a positive attitude toward the elderly among nursing students. 2. Improve nursing students' communication competence and interaction skills when providing advanced health care services. 3. Improve the teaching skills of professional nursing instructors.

Using an action research approach, the investigators designed a pair of geriatric nursing and practicum courses and recruited a class of in-service nursing students through convenience sampling in a college setting. The intervention was an 18-week course in geriatric nursing that meets once a week in the classroom and internship practice in settings used for training nursing students. The investigators collected using quantitative indicators (attitude measurements) and qualitative textual analysis. The quantitative data were analyzed by paired t-testing using SPSS 21.0 software.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • The research object of this project will be the students in the nursing class of a university (third year students), and the students who have taken 2 credits each of "Geriatric Nursing" and "Geriatric Nursing Internship" in a working class.

Exclusion criteria

  • Not a junior in a working class in a university nursing department.Those who have not completed the courses of "Geriatric Nursing" and "Geriatric Nursing Internship".

Treatment and study plan

Teaching intervention program

Other

Using an action research approach, The investigators designed a pair of geriatric nursing and practicum courses and recruited a class of in-service nursing students through convenience sampling in a college setting. The intervention was an 18-week course in geriatric nursing that meets once a week in the classroom and internship practice in settings used for training nursing students. The investigators collected data using quantitative indicators (attitude measurements) and qualitative textual analysis. The quantitative data were analyzed by paired t-testing using SPSS 21.0 software.

Primary outcomes

  1. Scale of attitudes towards the elderly

    Time frame: Baseline (T0)

    The scale of attitude towards the elderly is divided into positive and negative attitudes, with 20 and 22 questions respectively. This scale uses a visual analogue scale (VAS) from 1 to 7 points, ranging from From 1="strongly disagree" to 7="strongly agree", check the attitude and feeling that most matches with them. Degree detection (Cronach's α=0.94) has good reliability and validity.

  2. Attitude Inventory for Health Team Care

    Time frame: Baseline (T0)

    The attitude scale of health team care, the subjects will choose the most consistent attitude and feeling from 1="strongly disagree" to 6="strongly agree" with regard to the degree of agreement between the declarative sentences and their own feelings. The higher the score of the total scale, the more positive the attitude towards health care, and the content validity of this scale has been reviewed by experts. The degree of detection (Cronach's α=0.78), so this research tool also has good reliability and validity.

  3. Scale of attitudes towards the elderly

    Time frame: Change from after intervention at eighteen weeks (T1)

    The scale of attitude towards the elderly is divided into positive and negative attitudes, with 20 and 22 questions respectively. This scale uses a visual analogue scale (VAS) from 1 to 7 points, ranging from From 1="strongly disagree" to 7="strongly agree", check the attitude and feeling that most matches with them. Degree detection (Cronach's α=0.94) has good reliability and validity.

  4. Attitude Inventory for Health Team Care

    Time frame: Change from after intervention at eighteen weeks (T1)

    The attitude scale of health team care, the subjects will choose the most consistent attitude and feeling from 1="strongly disagree" to 6="strongly agree" with regard to the degree of agreement between the declarative sentences and their own feelings. The higher the score of the total scale, the more positive the attitude towards health care, and the content validity of this scale has been reviewed by experts. The degree of detection (Cronach's α=0.78), so this research tool also has good reliability and validity.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Communication Competence and Transdisciplinary Cooperation in Geriatric Nursing: A Participatory Action Research

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Mar 22, 2022
Registry last updated
Mar 22, 2022

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