Emotional Competence and Compassion Training (ECCT)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Emotional Intelligence

Treatments: Behavioral: The Emotional Backpack; Behavioral: The Power of Feelings

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03790319

ECCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study several different face-to-face workshops about emotional competence and compassion are scientifically evaluated with psychometric questionnaires and heart rate variability measuring.

Full description

Stress and stress related diseases are a huge health burden in modern societies. Psycho-emotional stress plays a key role in stress regulation. Therefore this study aims to investigate the effects of online-courses addressing emotion regulation.

For this aim several different workshops about emotional competence and compassion are scientifically evaluated with psychometric questionnaires and heart rate variability measuring. The workshops are planned by the trainers and people register on their own initiative.

The seminars are either single workshops over three days or a yearly program consisting of three three-day-workshops. They consist of lectures and exercises about the character of the different feelings, about the characteristics of emotions and teach practices on how to dael with difficult emotions.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-85 years
• participation in one of the included courses
• e-mail address

Exclusion criteria

• participation in another study
• no verbal communication (german) possible
• dementia or another disease that limits cognitive abilities

Trial design

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Single Workshop 'The Emotional Backpack'

Description:

Subjects of this group are participating in one single workshop over three days.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Emotional Backpack

Year Program 'The Power of Feelings'

Description:

Subjects of this group are participating in three workshops of over 3 days each in a continuing group over nine months. They are animated to deal with the content inbetween the workshops through biweekly e-mails and to exchange in couples.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Power of Feelings