NCT05689489

Use of Puzzle Method in Psychiatric Nursing Teaching

Use of Puzzle Method in Psychiatric Nursing Teaching: A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Uskudar University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Objective: It is thought that the puzzle technique and teaching method will be useful in teaching psychiatric nursing in order to facilitate the learning of psychiatric symptoms and findings and to increase awareness in mental state examination. For this reason, the research was planned to examine the effectiveness of the puzzle technique in learning psychiatric symptoms and findings in psychiatric nursing students. Design: This study was planned in a randomized controlled experimental design. Method Place and Time The research is planned to be carried out between November and January 2022 at a foundation university. Population and Sample of the Research The population of the research will be 108 students enrolled in the nursing program of a foundation university and taking the "Psychiatric Nursing" course in the fall semester of the 2022-2023 academic year. In the study, it is aimed to reach the entire universe, not selecting the sample. The students in the universe, who accepted to participate in the study and completed the pre-test, will be assigned to the intervention and control groups by randomization with the help of a generator on the www.random.org website by being numbered according to their order in the student list. Hypothesis: Students who use puzzle method in teaching psychiatric nursing have higher knowledge levels than students who do not.

Conditions

• Psychiatric Nursing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Puzzle Method	While preparing the puzzle to be used in the study, the puzzle preparation program will be used (Crossword Puzzle Maker). Students in the initiative group will be asked to solve a total of 6 puzzles, one puzzle each week. The answers to the prepared puzzles will cover the theoretical course topics of psychiatric nursing. In the puzzles, students will be expected to place their answers in the specified rows and columns. Students will be asked to solve puzzles individually. In addition, the answer to each puzzle will be found on the reverse on the back page. Students will be reminded that there is no time limit for solving the puzzles. Researchers will guide students while students solve puzzles.
OTHER	Ongoing Education	Students in the control group will only take the theoretical course of psychiatric nursing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-07
• Primary completion: 2022-12-16
• Completion: 2023-01-09
• First posted: 2023-01-19
• Last updated: 2023-01-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)