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This research aims to explore how an educational escape game affects students motivation, academic self-confidence, and success levels. It includes students enrolled in an elderly care program and compares those participating in the escape game with those using a traditional question-answer method. The study hypothesizes that the escape game will lead to higher motivation, self-efficacy, and achievement. Participants are divided into two groups based on their program branches the experimental group engages in the educational escape game, which involves four stations focusing on pulse, respiration-oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and body temperature, each with its own scenario. The control group participates in a question-answer activity. These interventions take place in a skills laboratory setting. During the study, students motivation is assessed one month after the interventions using the Motivation Scale for Teaching Materials. Data collection also includes monitoring academic self-efficacy and success through specific scales and tests. Participation requires attendance during data collection and the ability to access Google forms via phone and internet. The study runs until March 2025, with random assignment to groups and single masking applied.

This research evaluates how watching a therapeutic video affects pain, anxiety, and comfort levels in patients undergoing thyroid biopsy procedures. Conducted as a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest controlled trial at the interventional radiology unit of Mu State Hospital, the study includes 68 patients divided into experimental and control groups. The goal is to assess whether the relaxing audiovisual intervention can improve patient experience during the biopsy. Participants are assigned alternately to either the intervention or control group. The intervention group watches a multisensory therapeutic video featuring calming nature scenes, soothing narration, and soft music immediately before and during the biopsy. The control group receives standard care without the video. This approach aims to reduce anxiety and discomfort associated with the procedure. During the study, data will be collected using standardized tools including pain and comfort visual analog scales and the State Anxiety Inventory. Measurements are taken before and after the biopsy to compare changes between groups. The study monitors pain levels as the primary outcome over five months and evaluates psychological and procedural effects related to the video intervention throughout the trial period.

This research aims to evaluate how using a stress ball during the active phase of labor affects labor pain and comfort in pregnant women. The study compares women who use a stress ball during labor to those who receive routine care, focusing on whether the stress ball can reduce pain and increase comfort during childbirth. Participants will be randomly assigned to either an experimental group, which will use the stress ball from when their cervix is 3-4 cm dilated until it reaches 8-9 cm, or a control group, which will receive standard care without the stress ball. Pain levels will be measured using the Visual Analog Scale VAS, and comfort will be assessed with a labor comfort scale. Women will be monitored starting in the early active phase of labor through to later dilation. Pain and comfort will be measured twice within the first hour of labor and again 10-12 hours into labor. The study will track these outcomes to understand if the stress ball influences the labor experience.

Researchers are evaluating the effects of a solution-focused approach-based individual intervention on psychosocial adjustment and treatment adherence in people diagnosed with schizophrenia. This randomized controlled trial involves 60 clinically stable adults aged 18 to 65 with schizophrenia, registered at a university-affiliated Community Mental Health Center. The study aims to explore how this person-centered, brief therapy model may support social functioning and treatment compliance. Participants are randomly assigned to either an experimental group or a control group. The experimental group receives one individual solution-focused therapy session per week for six consecutive weeks, emphasizing strengths, positive coping, goal setting, and future-oriented solutions. The control group receives usual care without additional intervention. The intervention uses structured questions and techniques to help participants build hope and improve psychosocial adjustment. During the study, data is collected before and after the intervention using the Psychosocial Adjustment Scale and the Medication Adherence Scale. Participants complete a personal information form and engage in individual interviews. Researchers will analyze changes in psychosocial adaptation and medication adherence. The study includes baseline measurements within one week before intervention and follow-up assessments six weeks after completing the sessions.