The effect of video-assisted orientation education on nursing students to their anxiety levels about clinical practice

This research was carried out experimentally to determine the effect of video-assisted orientation training on nursing students to their anxiety levels about clinical practice. The research samples has established with 80 students who agreed to participate in research (experiment:40, control:40) in 2014-2015 Yıldırım Beyazıt University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department who meet the criteria in Nursing Fundamentals course under the Yıldırım Beyazıt University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital. The data in the study was collected with "Descriptive Characteristics Related Questionnaire", "State-Trait Anxiety Inventory". The orientation training was given by video-assisted to test group, by presentation to the control group. The anxiety levels of the students were examined with respect to time (before and after orientation training, morning and afternoon of the first day of clinical practice, last week of clinical practice). To evaluate the data, number and percent, Ki-kare Test, Mann-Whitney U test, Independent T Test, Two-Way Mixed Anova, Analysis of Variance for Repeated Measures, Bonferroni Correction, Friedman Test and Correlation Analysis were used. In the study, the trait anxiety mean score of the students in experimental group is 47.2±5.3 and in control group is 45.9±4.6. A with respect to time, it was found out that there is no statistically significant between the changes in the state anxiety score of the students of the experimental group (p˃0.05), but it is significant for control group (p<0.05). The differences between felt anxiety scores of the students in the experimental and control group was found statistically significant with respect to time (p<0.05). There have been suggestions in the light of the results of the study.