Gulsah Korpe
Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey
Title: The comparison of applied breathing technique before osce on the effect of state anxiety level and vital signs on the nursing students
Biography
Biography: Gulsah Korpe
Abstract
Almost all universities implement an exam that is OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Exam) to assess the skills that the student learned in the nursing skills laboratory during the educational period. This study has been carried out to determine the effect of breathing technique in reducing of state anxiety on before OSCE. This study was a randomized controlled study in 60 nursing students who study in an university in Ä°stanbul. The data were collected before the OSCE held on May 31, 2017. Structured information form and the state anxiety subscale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used in this study. Before starting to study, ethical approval was obtained from the Non-Interventional Ethics Committee of Istanbul Medipol University. It was conducted on 60 expecting students separated into groups by randomization, of which 30 were treated with breathing technique and remaining 30 constituted the control group. Breathing technique was applied for 20 minutes. At the end of this technique, each student was taken to OSCE without waiting. In this study, the average age of the students is 19.3 and 85% of the students are women. According to the results of the study, it was found that the breathing technique applied in nursing students before the OSCE exam reduces the state anxiety point average (Z= -3.124, p<0,005) but it was found to have no effect on vital signs. It has been shown that this breathing technique, which is easy and safe, can reduce the exam anxiety.