Jigsaw method boosts nursing Students' spiritual care perceptions, study finds
NCT ID NCT07427667
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tested two teaching methods—lecture and jigsaw (a collaborative learning technique)—for spiritual care education in 90 nursing students in Turkey. The jigsaw group showed a greater increase in perceptions of spiritual care, but neither method significantly changed how often students practiced spiritual care in the clinic. The findings suggest interactive learning may improve attitudes, but translating that into practice may need more support.
What this could mean
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- Active substance
- Spiritual care education (lecture-based and jigsaw collaborative learning)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could point toward better ways to teach nursing students about spiritual care, potentially improving holistic patient support.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, single-site educational study with no clinical outcomes. The training did not increase how often students actually provided spiritual care, so real-world impact remains uncertain.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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93 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Apr 2025
- Finished
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Nov 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
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nclusion Criteria: Fourth-year undergraduate nursing students enrolled at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University (Türkiye). Actively participating in clinical internship placements during the study period. Willing to participate and providing written informed consent. Not having received formal education or training specifically focused on spirituality or spiritual care during undergraduate nursing education. Exclusion Criteria: Students who did not provide informed consent. Students who previously received formal education/training on spiritual care. Students who were not active nursing students during the data collection period. Students with incomplete post-test or retention-test data. \-
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Faculty of Health Sciences
Rize, 53000, Turkey (Türkiye)
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