Development of a Health Promotion Nursing Intervention for Post-traumatic Stress Women Based on Swanson's Theory of Caring

Yonsei University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Women Who Have Experienced Trauma

Treatments: Other: Health Promotion Nursing Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05118438

Y-2019-0153

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objectives: We aimed to (1) develop a caring program for health promotion among women who experienced trauma and (2) evaluate its effect on post-traumatic stress, depression, health-promoting behaviors, and self-esteem.

Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental study using a group pre-test/post-test design. Data were collected from 14 women recruited from a self-sufficiency support center for sexually exploited women who experienced trauma, during December 2019-May 2020. Participants were assessed at pre-test, post-test, and at a one-month follow-up. We analyzed changes in outcome variables over time using repeated-measures analysis of variance and paired t-tests.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 37 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. women aged over 18 years who had experienced a traumatic event, and
2. a PTS score of 64 or lower on the PTSD checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) developed by Weathers et al. (1993), revised by Weathers et al. (2013), and translated into Korean by Kim et al. (2017).

Exclusion criteria

1. presence of psychiatric conditions with hallucinations and delusions, and
2. diagnosis of an intellectual disability that would make understanding the intervention procedure difficult. Although a standard cut-off was not present in the PCL-5, women who exceeded 80% (64 points) of the total score were excluded to rule out high-risk women with severe trauma.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Nursing intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The recruited participants were clients of a self-sufficiency support center for sexually exploited women located in South Korea, recruited through snowball sampling after obtaining permission from the director of the support center.

Treatment:

Other: Health Promotion Nursing Intervention