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CTRI Number  CTRI/2015/07/005964 [Registered on: 05/07/2015] Trial Registered Retrospectively
Last Modified On: 02/06/2015
Post Graduate Thesis  Yes 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study   Behavioral
Other (Specify) [Reflection Diary Writing]  
Study Design  Randomized, Parallel Group Trial 
Public Title of Study   Effect of diary writing in a specific method, sharing and discussing it by the nursing students related experiences of selected mental disorders patients symptoms improves their skills of identify symptoms 
Scientific Title of Study   The effect of Reflection Diary (RD) in Development of Experiential Learning Skills (ELS) among student Nurses 
Trial Acronym   
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  Mr Atul Sharma 
Designation  PG student 
Affiliation  Father Muller College Of Nursing 
Address  78,Janta colony behind bus stand deoli (Tonk) Rajasthan
Father Muller College Of Nursing FMCI Kankanady Mangalore
Tonk
RAJASTHAN
304804
India 
Phone  9414991230  
Fax    
Email  atul27june@yahoo.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query  
Name  Chanu Bhattacharya 
Designation  Professor 
Affiliation  Father Muller College OF Nursing 
Address  Father Muller College Of Nursing FMCI Kankanady Mangalore
Father Muller College Of Nursing FMCI Kankanady Mangalore
Dakshina Kannada
KARNATAKA
575002
India 
Phone  9886635139  
Fax    
Email  canboy142002@yahoo.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query  
Name  Chanu Bhattacharya 
Designation  Professor 
Affiliation  Father Muller College OF Nursing 
Address  Father Muller College Of Nursing FMCI Kankanady Mangalore
Father Muller College Of Nursing FMCI Kankanady Mangalore
Dakshina Kannada
KARNATAKA
575002
India 
Phone  9886635139  
Fax    
Email  canboy142002@yahoo.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
Atul Sharma Janta Colony DEoli Tonk Rajasthan Pin Code 304804 Phone No : 9414991230 
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  Atul Sharma 
Address  Janta Colony Deoli (TONK) Rajasthan PIn Code 304804 Phone No 9414991230 
Type of Sponsor  Other [Post Graduate Student] 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL  NIL 
 
Countries of Recruitment     India  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 1  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
Dr Sanjeev Rai  General Psychiatry No 90  Dr Sanjeev Rai Chief Medical Officer Father Muller Medical College Hospital, Mangalore
Dakshina Kannada
KARNATAKA 		 9448133494

raibs11@gmail.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
Father Muller Institutional Ethics Committee  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Healthy Human Volunteers  healthy 
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Comparator Agent  control group I  control group I has been given a blank white paper diary and written followed by observing/experiencing selected sign and symptoms related to auditory hallucination, delusion, suicidal ideation and aggression for 5 days and after which shares their experience in a group about their experience with unformatted diary or blank white paper diary. further on teaching session was given about sign / symptoms learned by paper writing and experience to another group of students i.e. learning group III. later on Learning group III assess their teacher for experiential learning skills learned by writing a paper. (control group I). 
Comparator Agent  Experimental group-II   experimental group-I write a formatted Reflection Diary by observing/experiencing selected sign and symptoms related to auditory hallucination, delusion, suicidal ideation and aggression for 5 days and after which shares their experience in a group about reflection practice. further on teaching/ providing a real tranning about those sign / symptoms learned by reflective practice to another group of students i.e. learning group III. later on Learning group III assess their teacher (Experimental group) for development of experiential learning skills. .  
Comparator Agent  Learning Group III  Learning group has been introduced in study after complition of both groups (Group I with reflection diary & Group II without reflection diary). By which both the groups teaches their real experience about patient sign/symptoms to the learning groups III And learning groups III assess both the groups and finding outs the effect of reflection diary in development of experiential learning skills. 
Intervention  Reflection Diary (RD) Writing  Reflection diary (RD) refers to a semi-structured personal innovative diary developed and introduced by investigator where student nurses records and reflects upon personalized selected observations/experiences/events related to the behavoural symptoms identifications i.e. 1. Auditory Hallucination 2. Delusion 3. Suicidal ideation 4. Aggression with sharing information and written content with in the group, to explore, analyze and validate the experiences during the second stage of the study. Student those who are using such reflection diary can able to teach diary writing and experiencing learning selected symptoms to other group of students also in the final stage of the study. An experiential learning skill (ELS) refers to a skill learned from experience. In this study the group reflects on that event/situations and record it in a specific diary and share it with others to generalize those experiences. The skills of this processing, experiential learning improve through, reflection and sharing. They further use their experiential learning skills (ELS) to teach other group of student and other group can also able to assess their experiential learning skills (ELS). Experiential Learning composed of four elements:  
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  19.00 Year(s)
Age To  40.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  4th year BSc Nursing and 2nd year Post Basic BSc Nursing And Post Graguate Nursing Students.
All the materials and Reflection Diary communicated in all means were in English language. 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  Student belongs to general nurse midwivies nursing course
Student who are not present at the time of data collection. 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Coin toss, Lottery, toss of dice, shuffling cards etc 
Method of Concealment   An Open list of random numbers 
Blinding/Masking   Open Label 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Development of Experiential learning skills  7 days 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Development of experiential learning skills  1 year 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="50"
Sample Size from India="50" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= ""
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="" 
Phase of Trial   N/A 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   13/10/2014 
Date of Study Completion (India) Date Missing 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  Date Missing 
Date of Study Completion (Global) Date Missing 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="2"
Months="0"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)   Not Applicable 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Completed 
Publication Details   Submitted for Review And Publication 
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Brief Summary  

A diary of Reflection is a flexible alternative approach to the psychiatric nursing students. Students keep a personal diary in which they reflect and write about their experience with mentally ill patient by interacting and observing behavioral outcome of patients etc . which develops experiential learning skills in psychiatric nurses. Reflection diary will helps to develop critical thinking, self-awareness and analytical skills. Reflection diary can help student nurses to inform about what worked or didn’t work, what might need to be done differently, or how individuals may need to develop their behavior or practice. Sometime psychiatric nursing students does not like to interact with mentally ill patient because of certain abnormal behavior and symptom presents like aggression, abusiveness, irritable, anxious etc. Reflection diary will motivate and initiate them to interact with mentally ill patients comfortably in any circumstances and student nurses will gain interest to use it. Reflection diary will help the psychiatric nursing students to reflect on their experience in much effective way. Experiential learning skills will develop place by regular practice on reflection diary, which will develop a stable learning. 

 
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