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Therapeutic Communication Training in Perinatal Loss: Simulation-Based Approaches

NCT06959875 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2025-05-07

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Summary

This study aims to evaluate the effect of simulation-based education on nursing students' therapeutic communication skills in managing perinatal loss. Perinatal loss, defined as early fetal loss before 20 weeks of gestation and late fetal loss at or after 20 weeks, is a traumatic experience that significantly impacts parents, especially mothers, on biological, psychological, social, and spiritual levels. Prolonged grief reactions can lead to complicated grief, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, and relationship disturbances. Nursing students are trained to adopt a biopsychosocial approach in patient care and are expected to support grieving individuals by normalizing emotions, identifying coping strategies, and facilitating healthy grief processing. Simulation is recognized as an effective teaching method in developing communication and therapeutic skills among nursing students. This research investigates how simulation-based training can enhance students' therapeutic communication competencies when supporting individuals experiencing perinatal loss.

Conditions

  • Simulation-based Learning
  • Communication Skills
  • Paper-Pencil Simulation
  • High-fidelity Simulation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

High-Fidelity Simulation-Based Therapeutic Communication Training

This intervention involves a structured, high-fidelity simulation scenario in a clinical skills lab setting using mannequins and standardized patients. The scenario focuses on communication with a patient experiencing perinatal loss. The session includes pre-briefing, simulation, and debriefing components.

BEHAVIORAL

Paper-Pencil Simulation-Based Therapeutic Communication Training

This intervention utilizes a written clinical case scenario related to perinatal loss. Students read the scenario and write appropriate therapeutic communication responses, followed by group discussion and instructor feedback. The focus is on reflection and theoretical integration.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Acibadem University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
24 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-12-01
Primary Completion
2025-01-30
Completion
2025-01-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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