Effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercise on anxiety among nursing students prior to critical care clinical training

Last registered on March 13, 2023
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General Information

Title
Effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercise on anxiety among nursing students prior to critical care clinical training
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0011058
Initial registration date
March 07, 2023

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
March 13, 2023, 3:01 PM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Country
Palestine, State of
Region
Jenin

Primary Investigator

Name
Ahmad Ayed
Affiliation
Arab American University Palestine
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Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2021-12-01
End date
2022-03-01
Keywords
Behavior, Education
Additional Keywords
exercise, anxiety, muscle relaxation
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Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
Intensive care units are considered stressful and emotionally risky situations by both professionals and patients and their families. The purpose was to assess the effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercise on anxiety among nursing students in intensive care units prior to clinical training.
Method
A randomized, controlled study design was used. The study composed of 80 nursing students from Arab American University. For two weeks, the experimental group's 40 participants were taught progressive muscle relaxation exercises to help with anxiety control, whereas the control group's 40 participants received no training.
Results
The results revealed that the experimental group was capable of reducing the anxiety (P< 0.05). Also, the experimental group had les anxiety (1.15±SD= 0.43) compared with the control group (2.83±SD= 0.40).
Conclusion
The current study's findings confirmed the effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercise (PMRE) on anxiety reduction in intensive care units during clinical training among nursing students.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Ayed, Ahmad. 2023. "Effect of progressive muscle relaxation exercise on anxiety among nursing students prior to critical care clinical training." AEA RCT Registry. March 13. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.11058-1.0
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Nursing students were chosen to take part in the study once the study obtained approval from the institutional review board. The participants were randomly allocated to either the experimental or the control group after signing the informed consent forms (40 participants per group). All participants completed the pre- and post-intervention questionnaires. The pre-intervention questionnaire was completed before classes and clinical training began at the start of the new school year. Two weeks following the pre-intervention questionnaire, the post-intervention questionnaire was administered.
After completing the pre-intervention questionnaire, the 40 participants in the experimental group received Jacobson’s PMRE. Jacobson’s muscle relaxation exercise was applied at the lab of the nursing faculty for five consecutive days per week. The control group (40 participants) did not receive any training.
Intervention Start Date
2021-12-01
Intervention End Date
2022-03-01

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
the intervention group, the mean post intervention state anxiety score (M = 1.15, SD = 0.43) was lower than the mean pre-intervention state anxiety score (M = 2.86, SD = 0.38).When comparing the two groups, the intervention group had a significantly lower level of anxiety than the control group after the 2-week intervention (t (78) = 18.06, p < 0.01)
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

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Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
A randomized controlled study of 80 baccalaureate nursing students was conducted at Arab American University in the period of December 2021 to March 2022. The inclusion criteria were nursing students registered in a critical care nursing course. Exclusion criteria involved using sedatives, a history of psychiatric problems, missing more than two intervention sessions, and being exposed to stressful events in the previous three months
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
The participants were randomly allocated to either the experimental or the control group (40 participants per group). The researcher listed the students and randomly assigned the first number in the list to the intervention group and then the second one to the control group. The same process was repeated until the desired sample size was achieved.
Randomization Unit
The researcher listed the students and randomly assigned the first number in the list to the intervention group and then the second one to the control group.
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
one school
Sample size: planned number of observations
40 students
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
The participants were randomly allocated to either the experimental or the control group (40 participants per group).
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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