The Effect of Mobile Web-based Intervention Programme on Students' Nursing Education Stress and Sleep Quality

Nursing students experience increased stress and sleep problems due to their demanding academic schedules and the pressures of the clinical environment. Therefore, addressing students' needs for stress and sleep management is critical to improving their educational success. A review of the literature reveals that various interventions are being used to reduce stress levels or improve sleep quality for university students. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a web-based intervention program on the stress and sleep levels of nursing students.

This study will utilize a pretest-posttest control group experimental design. The study will be conducted with 120 nursing students enrolled at İnönü University Faculty of Nursing from September 2025 to June 2026. Participants will be administered a Personal Information Form, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Nursing Education Scale, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the experimental and control groups will be monitored via a mobile application for 12 weeks. Descriptive statistics such as percentages, arithmetic mean (x̄), and standard deviation (SD), along with chi-square and independent samples t-tests, repeated measures t-tests, and Cronbach's alpha will be used for research analyses.

The research is unique in terms of its sample size and the intervention it plans to implement. Therefore, it has the potential to be published in respected international scientific journals. Furthermore, if the effectiveness of the application in managing stress and sleep is established, it is anticipated that it could be applied to other adult populations, particularly midwifery students.

Active, Not Recruiting

This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Conditions

MOBILE WEB-BASED INTERVENTION PROGRAM Dyssomnias Mental Disorders NURSING EDUCATION STRESS Nervous System Diseases Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders Sleep Quality Sleep Wake Disorders

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Inonu University Faculty of Nursing

Malatya, Battalgazi, 44280, Turkey (Türkiye)

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

PUKI total score above 5
Individuals with internet access
Owning an Android or iOS phone
Those who are open to communication and collaboration

Exclusion criteria

Individuals with a psychiatric diagnosis and use of psychiatric medications, according to ASM records,
who sleep less than four hours a day, who consume more than four cups of coffee a day
who have hearing or balance problems (orthopedic or neurological) will not be included in the study.

Treatment and study plan

Mobile based intervention program

Behavioral

The participants in this group will be using the mobile application

Primary outcomes

nursing education stress scores

Time frame: six months

The scale consists of a total of 32 items and two subscales: "Application Stress" and "Academic Stress." Items 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, 29, and 32 are scored to calculate students' application stress, while items 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 20, 22, 23, 26, 28, 30, and 31 are scored to calculate students' academic stress. The scale is a four-point Likert-type scale, with each item scored between 0 and 3 ("0" being not stressful at all, "3" being very stressful). The highest score possible from the scale is 96, with higher scores indicating higher educational stress.
sleep quality

Time frame: six months

The PSQI consists of seven components (subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbance/conditions affecting sleep, use of sleep-inducing medications/substances, and daytime dysfunction/sleepiness). 18 questions are included in the scoring when calculating the PSQI. The answers to each are scored between 0 and 3. The total scale score ranges from 0 to 21. A total scale score higher than 5 indicates poor sleep quality.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fidan Balkaya

Other

Collaborators

Inonu University

Registry information

Acronym: application

Important dates

Study start: 2025
Primary completion: 2025
Study completion: 2026
First posted: Aug 24, 2025
Registry last updated: Feb 24, 2026

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