ArticleJournal of evaluation in clinical practice2025
Examining the Relationship Between Basic Nursing Skills, Hand Function, and Anxiety Levels in First-Year Nursing Students: A Correlational Study.
Article in Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
aimThe aim of this study was to determine the relationship between basic nursing skills, hand functions and anxiety levels of nursing students.
backgroundIt is vital that basic nursing skills are achieved in the fastest and most accurate way in nursing.
designThis study was conducted with cross-sectional correlational design.
methodsThe sample of study consisted of freshman nursing students (N = 123). The data were obtained by 'Student Information Form', 'State-Trait Anxiety Inventory', 'Basic Nursing Skills Forms' and 'Hand Skill Test'. Descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used to analyse the data.
resultsThe mean age of the students was 19.24 ± 1.31 years and 69.9% were female. 76% (n = 95) of them had not experienced any nursing skill before. The students' scores of basic nursing skills were above average. State and Trait Anxiety Inventory total scores were 44.71 ± 6.57 and 39.78 ± 9.82, respectively. 93.6% (n = 117) of the students had right dominant hand. Significant low-to-moderate correlations were found between left hand fine motor skill score and nasogastric drug administration skill (r = 0.197), both hand fine motor skill scores and blood collection skill (r = 0.191), assembly fine motor skill score and sterile glove wearing (r = 0.200), and subcutaneous injection skill (r = 0.277). However, no significant correlation was found between hand function and anxiety levels.
conclusionsIn this study, a relationship was found between hand function and some basic skills. It is recommended that hand skills of nursing students should be evaluated multidimensionally with different measurement tools and similar studies should be planned in groups at different levels of nursing education and in larger samples.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.