NCT05800652

Mentoring Program for Nursing Students

The Effect of the Peer Mentoring Program Applied to Nursing Students on Perceived Stress and Self-confidence

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Gazi University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years – 22 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

University life is a challenging period for many students. University students mostly leave their families and live in crowded environments such as home and home. Research shows that students have difficulty in adapting to university life and often experience emotional, academic, professional and economic problems. Peer mentoring is one of the methods of learning and developing life skills in meeting the needs of university students.The peer mentoring intervention, which is used effectively in nursing education, provides benefits to both mentor and menene; It provides the opportunity to grow and improve by improving positive interaction between peers.It can be said that peer mentoring has a significant effect on students in line with the literature information. In this study, it was planned to examine the impact of the peer mentoring program applied on the perceived stress and self -confidence in order to ensure that the first year students of the nursing students adapt to the university life and the profession and to gain the necessary skills to survive in this process.

Detailed description

In this study, it was planned to examine the impact of the peer mentoring program applied on the perceived stress and self -confidence in order to ensure that the first year students of the nursing students adapt to the university life and the profession and to gain the necessary skills to survive in this process. Study has been planned as a type of randomized controlled intervention type with pre -test and monitoring patterns, one of the quantitative research methods. 40 mentees (experiment = 20; control = 20) and 20 mentors were included in the study.12 -week mentoring program was applied to the mentees by the mentors. In the collection of research data, "Personal Information Form", "General Self -Qualification Scale", "Self -Confidence Scale" and "Perceived Stress Scale" were used. The measurements were taken 3 times:pre test, post-test and 3-months post-test.

Conditions

• Mentoring
• Nursing Students

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Peer Mentoring Program	Mentoring program created in academic, social, emotional and safety dimensions.In the academic dimension, there is information about the instructors, course selection, preparing a course study program,efficient study methods,information about the education and training program. Social dimension includes interpersonal relations, participation in social life, free time activities, making friends.The emotional dimension includes developing self-confidence,coping with stress,belonging and motivation.In the security dimension, there are student rights,scholarship opportunities, accommodation opportunities, library and internet facilities, use of the health center and clinical practice. In the mentoring program, it was expected that the mentors would make individual meeting(s) with the mentee they were matched with, face to face, online or over the phone, and share information and support every week. The mentoring program continued for 12 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2023-03-20
• First posted: 2023-04-05
• Last updated: 2023-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)