Nurses BehaviorsRECAST-HNCT07539363
Effect of "RECAST-H" (REverse CAses STudies Based on Heutagogy Approach) on Professional Readiness
A study testing Reverse Case Studies based on Heutagogy Approach in people with Nurses Behaviors and Nurses, run by Hacettepe University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
The goal of this study is to examine the effect of reverse case studies based on the heutagogical approach on the level of readiness for the profession among final-year nursing students. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any ageHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Nurses Behaviors, Nurses, Education, Nursing Students
- What is being tested?
- Reverse Case Studies based on Heutagogy Approach
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 84 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 9 Apr 2026to Jun 2026
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Not yet: the study is under way
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages Any age
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Being a final-year nursing student
- Enrolled in "Education in Nursing" course
- Willing to participate in the study
Who cannot join
- Graduated from vocational high school specializing in health services
- Working full-time in any institution providing health services
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.
Turkey (Türkiye)1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Hacettepe University
Ankara, Ankara, 06100
YILDIZ ERDAT, 05433277417, yldztrnc@gmail.com
About this study
Official title: Examining the Effect of "RECAST-H" (REverse CAses STudies Based on Heutagogy Approach) on Professional Readiness Among Final-Year Nursing Students:Randomized Controlled Trial
The goal of this study is to examine the effect of reverse case studies based on the heutagogical approach on the level of readiness for the profession among final-year nursing students.
The hypotheses are:
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H0-1: There is no difference in the level of professional readiness between the control group and the intervention group that underwent reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach.
H0-2: There is no difference in career adaptability between the control group and the intervention group that underwent reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach.
H0-3: There is no difference in professional socialization between the control group and the intervention group that underwent reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach.
Secondary Hypothesis:
H0-4: There is no difference in psychological capital levels between the control group and the intervention group that underwent reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach.
Researchers will compare the heutagogy-based reverse case studies program group with the waiting-list control group to evaluate its effects on professional readiness, career adaptability, professional socialization, and psychological capital.
Participants will:
- complete baseline assessments
- be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the waiting-list control group
- receive reverse case studies program based on the heutagogy approach (intervention group)
- complete post-intervention assessments after the educational program
Read the detailed description
Background: Newly graduated nurses may experience various difficulties during the first 12 months of their professional careers. Many interventions are implemented after recruitment to help newly graduated nurses overcome these challenges and ease their transition. Orientation training, internships, and nurse guidance or mentoring programs are among these interventions. Despite these interventions, new graduates continue to face various difficulties. Moreover, managers and experienced nurses often consider them inadequate. This situation raises questions about the readiness of new graduates for the profession. Therefore, equipping students with certain competencies during nursing education will help them cope more effectively with the disadvantages that may arise during the transition to professional practice. The current literature emphasizes that soft skills are more important than technical knowledge and abilities. Soft skills such as flexibility, self-awareness, problem-solving, interpersonal communication, cooperation, and coping with changing conditions and difficulties contribute to professional readiness and support positive coping with workplace challenges.
Objective: To examine the effect of reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach on the level of readiness for the profession among final-year nursing students.
Method: The study design is a prospective, pre-test, post-test, parallel-group, single-masked, explanatory randomized controlled trial. The study will take place at the Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing in Ankara. All final-year students enrolled at Hacettepe University School of Nursing during the 2025-2026 academic year will constitute the study population. The total sample size was determined to be 84, accounting for losses. Participants will be randomly assigned to either an intervention group that receives the educational program or to a waiting-list control group. The study will include a five-session reverse case study intervention based on a heutagogy approach. The primary outcomes are professional readiness, career adaptability, and professional socialization, and the secondary outcome is psychological capital. Data will be collected at the beginning of the study and again after the intervention has been completed. In addition, participants' feedback regarding the educational program will be collected using an evaluation form. The results of this study aim to enhance nursing education by offering an innovative and effective strategy to facilitate the transition of nursing students into their professional roles.
- Conditions
- Nurses Behaviors, Nurses, Education, Nursing Students
- Being tested
- Reverse Case Studies based on Heutagogy Approach
- Keywords
- transition to practice, reverse case study, Final-Year Nursing Students, Professional Readiness, Nursing Education, Randomized Controlled Trial, Heutagogy
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Reverse Case Studies based on Heutagogy ApproachBehavioural
A structured educational program based on the heutagogy approach and reverse case study method, designed to improve professional readiness among final-year nursing students.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention Group | Experimental | Participants in this arm will receive the heutagogy-based reverse case study educational program during the study period. Receives: Behavioral: Reverse Case Studies based on Heutagogy Approach |
| Waiting-list control Group | No intervention | Participants in this arm will not receive the educational program during the study period. They will receive the same educational program after completion of the study. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Professional Readiness
Professional readiness will be assessed using the Casey-Fink Readiness for Practice Scale (CFRPS). Scores range from 15 to 60, with higher scores indicating greater readiness for professional practice.
Measured: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program
Career Adapt-Ability
Career adaptability will be assessed using the validated Career Adapt-Abilities Scale Short Form (CAAS-SF). Scores range from 12 to 60, with higher scores indicating greater career adaptability.
Measured: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program
Professional socialization
Professional socialization will be assessed using a researcher-developed questionnaire based on the literature and expert validation.
Measured: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program
Secondary outcomes (1)
Psychological Capital
Psychological capital will be measured using the Psychological Capital Perception scale. Scores range from 17 to 85, with higher scores indicating greater perception of psychological capital.
Measured: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted20 Apr 2026
- Study start9 Apr 2026
- Primary completionJun 2026 (estimated)
- Study completionJun 2026 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Nurses BehaviorsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- Participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group receiving a heutagogy-based reverse case study educational program or a control group. The control group will receive the same educational program after completion of the study (waiting-list control design).
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Participant
- Enrolment
- 84 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Hacettepe University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, YILDIZ ERDAT, Hacettepe University
- Investigators
- SERGÜL DUYGULU, Study director, HACETTEPE UNİVERSITY
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07539363
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- E-66777842-300-0000-4285982
- Acronym
- RECAST-H
- Status last verified
- Apr 2026
- First submitted
- 13 Apr 2026
- Last updated
- 23 Apr 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 23 Apr 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Examining the Effect of "RECAST-H" (REverse CAses STudies Based on Heutagogy Approach) on Professional Readiness Among Final-Year Nursing Students:Randomized Controlled Trial
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07539363
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- RECAST-H / E-66777842-300-0000-4285982
- Conditions
- Nurses Behaviors, Nurses, Education, Nursing Students
- Keywords
- transition to practice, reverse case study, Final-Year Nursing Students, Professional Readiness, Nursing Education, Randomized Controlled Trial, Heutagogy
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Enrolment
- 84 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Hacettepe UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
- Study start
- 9 Apr 2026 (actual)
- Primary completion
- Jun 2026 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Jun 2026 (estimated)
- First posted
- 20 Apr 2026 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The goal of this study is to examine the effect of reverse case studies based on the heutagogical approach on the level of readiness for the profession among final-year nursing students.
The hypotheses are:
H0-1: There is no difference in the level of professional readiness between the control group and the intervention group that underwent reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach.
H0-2: There is no difference in career adaptability between the control group and the intervention group that underwent reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach.
H0-3: There is no difference in professional socialization between the control group and the intervention group that underwent reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach.
Secondary Hypothesis:
H0-4: There is no difference in psychological capital levels between the control group and the intervention group that underwent reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach.
Researchers will compare the heutagogy-based reverse case studies program group with the waiting-list control group to evaluate its effects on professional readiness, career adaptability, professional socialization, and psychological capital.
Participants will:
- complete baseline assessments
- be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the waiting-list control group
- receive reverse case studies program based on the heutagogy approach (intervention group)
- complete post-intervention assessments after the educational program
Detailed description
Background: Newly graduated nurses may experience various difficulties during the first 12 months of their professional careers. Many interventions are implemented after recruitment to help newly graduated nurses overcome these challenges and ease their transition. Orientation training, internships, and nurse guidance or mentoring programs are among these interventions. Despite these interventions, new graduates continue to face various difficulties. Moreover, managers and experienced nurses often consider them inadequate. This situation raises questions about the readiness of new graduates for the profession. Therefore, equipping students with certain competencies during nursing education will help them cope more effectively with the disadvantages that may arise during the transition to professional practice. The current literature emphasizes that soft skills are more important than technical knowledge and abilities. Soft skills such as flexibility, self-awareness, problem-solving, interpersonal communication, cooperation, and coping with changing conditions and difficulties contribute to professional readiness and support positive coping with workplace challenges.
Objective: To examine the effect of reverse case studies based on the heutagogy approach on the level of readiness for the profession among final-year nursing students.
Method: The study design is a prospective, pre-test, post-test, parallel-group, single-masked, explanatory randomized controlled trial. The study will take place at the Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing in Ankara. All final-year students enrolled at Hacettepe University School of Nursing during the 2025-2026 academic year will constitute the study population. The total sample size was determined to be 84, accounting for losses. Participants will be randomly assigned to either an intervention group that receives the educational program or to a waiting-list control group. The study will include a five-session reverse case study intervention based on a heutagogy approach. The primary outcomes are professional readiness, career adaptability, and professional socialization, and the secondary outcome is psychological capital. Data will be collected at the beginning of the study and again after the intervention has been completed. In addition, participants' feedback regarding the educational program will be collected using an evaluation form. The results of this study aim to enhance nursing education by offering an innovative and effective strategy to facilitate the transition of nursing students into their professional roles.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (participant)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- Participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group receiving a heutagogy-based reverse case study educational program or a control group. The control group will receive the same educational program after completion of the study (waiting-list control design).
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Intervention Group | Experimental | Behavioral: Reverse Case Studies based on Heutagogy ApproachParticipants in this arm will receive the heutagogy-based reverse case study educational program during the study period. |
| Waiting-list control Group | No intervention | –Participants in this arm will not receive the educational program during the study period. They will receive the same educational program after completion of the study. |
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Being a final-year nursing student
- Enrolled in "Education in Nursing" course
- Willing to participate in the study
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Graduated from vocational high school specializing in health services
- Working full-time in any institution providing health services
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Reverse Case Studies based on Heutagogy ApproachA structured educational program based on the heutagogy approach and reverse case study method, designed to improve professional readiness among final-year nursing students. | Behavioural | Intervention Group |
Primary outcome
Professional Readiness
Time frame: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program
Professional readiness will be assessed using the Casey-Fink Readiness for Practice Scale (CFRPS). Scores range from 15 to 60, with higher scores indicating greater readiness for professional practice.
Career Adapt-Ability
Time frame: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program
Career adaptability will be assessed using the validated Career Adapt-Abilities Scale Short Form (CAAS-SF). Scores range from 12 to 60, with higher scores indicating greater career adaptability.
Professional socialization
Time frame: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program
Professional socialization will be assessed using a researcher-developed questionnaire based on the literature and expert validation.
1 secondary outcome
Psychological Capital
Time frame: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program
Results and safety
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 23 Apr 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part.
SERGÜL DUYGULU study director
HACETTEPE UNİVERSITY
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Reverse Case Studies based on Heutagogy Approach in people with Nurses Behaviors and Nurses, run by Hacettepe University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 23 Apr 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact YILDIZ ERDAT (+90312 305 15 80, yildizturunc@hacettepe.edu.tr), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Professional Readiness (time frame: Baseline and immediately after completion of the educational program). The study lists 3 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 23 Apr 2026.