NCT07257159

End-of-Life Care Preparedness Program for Senior Nursing Students

End-of-Life Care Preparedness Program for Senior Nursing Students: Effects on Attitudes and Self-Efficacy in a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 59 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hilal ALTUNDAL DURU · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study, between 1 April- 31 May 2025, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 59 senior nursing students who are with 4th year nursing students starting the Nursing Department of Çankırı Karatekin University and Sakarya Applied Sciences University.

Detailed description

The End-of-Life Care Preparedness Program will be held in a online environment for the students in the intervention group. This training program has been developed based on the literature. The primary aim of the program was to enable participants to recognize their own thoughts and emotions about death, and to support their development in key areas of end-of-life care. Specifically, the content addressed providing care to dying individuals, caring for the deceased person, preparing the body after death, and offering psychosocial support to the bereaved family. The intervention consisted of four weekly sessions, each lasting approximately 90 minutes, delivered in an online group format via online. The training program will be applied to 29 senior nursing students in the intervention group. The sessions were structured to include psychoeducational content, interactive exercises, group discussions, and opportunities for reflection.

Conditions

• Self-Efficacy
• Attitude
• End-of-Life Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	The End-of-Life Care Preparedness Program	The End-of-Life Care Preparedness Program will be held in a online environment for the students in the intervention group. This training program has been developed based on the literature. The primary aim of the program was to enable participants to recognize their own thoughts and emotions about death, and to support their development in key areas of end-of-life care. Specifically, the content addressed providing care to dying individuals, caring for the deceased person, preparing the body after death, and offering psychosocial support to the bereaved family. The intervention consisted of four weekly sessions, each lasting approximately 90 minutes, delivered in an online group format via online. The training program will be applied to 29 senior nursing students in the intervention group. The sessions were structured to include psychoeducational content, interactive exercises, group discussions, and opportunities for reflection.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-01
• Primary completion: 2025-05-31
• Completion: 2025-06-30
• First posted: 2025-12-02
• Last updated: 2025-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)