Candidates who will provide the health services of the future should be ready to provide the safe and best health care services. In order to achieve this, it is recommended to use new training programs and methods that will provide similar situations to the working environment in the training of health workers. There are very few studies on the empathy and communication perceptions that creative drama education will create with the patient on physiotherapy and rehabilitation department students. Therefore, this study, the investigators aimed to investigate the perceived effect of communication skills training integrated with creative drama on physiotherapy and rehabilitation students' empathy and communication skills that will develop with the patient.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
Effective Communication with Creative Drama in Health Course will be given to students for 2 hours a week for 14 weeks.
Acıbadem University
Istanbul, Turkey (Türkiye)
interpersonal communication questionnaire
It is stated that the first four items are related to communication anxiety and the last four items are related to communication trust. Each item has a 5-point Likert scale between 1 = strongly disagree 5 = strongly agree. High values indicate poor communication
Time frame: Change from Baseline interpersonal communication questionnaire at 14 weeks
Jefferson Doctor Empathy Scale
The score range is 20-140, with higher average scores representing higher levels of empathy.
Time frame: Change from Baseline Jefferson Doctor Empathy Scale at 14 weeks
Visual analog scale-communication
A visual analog scale between 0 and 10 will be used to evaluate the communication that may occur when students go into clinical practice at the beginning and end of the term and when they meet the patient. Zero will be set to none, 10 will be set to the maximum I can think of.
Time frame: Change from Baseline Visual analog scale at 14 weeks
Visual analog scale-anxiety/stress
A visual analog scale between 0 and 10 will be used to evaluate the anxiety/stress that may occur when students go into clinical practice at the beginning and end of the term and when they meet the patient. Zero will be set to none, 10 will be set to the maximum I can think of.
Time frame: Change from Baseline Visual analog scale at 14 weeks
Visual analog scale-motivation
A visual analog scale between 0 and 10 will be used to evaluate the motivation that may occur when students go into clinical practice at the beginning and end of the term and when they meet the patient. Zero will be set to none, 10 will be set to the maximum I can think of.
Time frame: Change from Baseline Visual analog scale at 14 weeks
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