THE EFFECT OF CREATIVE DRAMA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANXIETY, EMPATHY AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN NURSING EDUCATION

In Psychiatric Nursing Education; The Effect of Creative Drama Method Based on Travelbee's "Human to Human Relationship" Theory on Developing Anxiety, Empathy and Communication Skills

This work; The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the education program, which was created with the creative drama method based on Travelbee's "human-to-human relationship" theory, on the teaching and practice of mental health and psychiatric nursing course, on reducing the anxiety of students and improving their empathy and communication skills.

In psychiatric nursing education; It is known that classical education methods are not sufficient to reduce students' anxiety and stigma, and to strengthen communication and empathy. For this reason, there is a need for training methods that will increase in-depth learning and communication skills and empathy in the field. In this research, the creative drama education method was arranged in accordance with the requirements of mental health and psychiatric nursing education and a training program was developed. Within the scope of the research, this training program was applied to the students who completed the theoretical education of psychiatric nursing. In order to measure the effectiveness of the research training program, it was planned in a quantitative design as a randomized controlled intervention study and in a mixed method in qualitative design in order to examine students' views on the method.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being residing in the city center of Ankara Volunteering to participate in the research, Being a 4th year nursing student and having completed the Mental Health and Diseases Nursing course, Lack of clinical experience in communicating with individuals with mental illness (Health Vocational High School graduate), Not having received training in communicating with individuals with mental illness before (students repeating a grade).

Not having been diagnosed with any mental illness No mental illness in first degree relatives

Exclusion Criteria:

• Living outside the city center of Ankara To fill in the research data collection forms incompletely, Not completing the creative drama education based on human-human relationship theory, Refusal to participate in the research Not meeting the criteria for inclusion in the research