Mindfulness Based Cognitive Counseling on Social Anxiety

Gazi University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Anxiety; Assertiveness; Self Confidence

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness based cognitive counseling group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05602012

FErcan

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to determine the effect of group mindfulness based cognitive counseling on social anxiety, assertiveness and self-confidence in nursing students and the relationship of these variables to change over time.

Full description

This is a randomized controlled and single-center study. The universe of the research consisted of nursing students who applied for counseling within the scope of the announcement made on the department web page. The research will be carried out in a state university, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing between February 22, 2022 - December 23, 2022. In the study, the assignment of students to the intervention and control groups was made by simple randomization. Participant Information Form, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale, Self-Confidence Scale and Assertiveness Inventory will be used to collect the data of the study. Data collection tools will be applied three times simultaneously with the control group as a pre-test at the beginning of the study, as a post-test at the last session of the intervention group ( 2 month), and as a follow-up test 6 months after the last session of the intervention group.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Liebowitz social anxiety scale score >50
• 18 years of age or older
• Volunteering to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with a mental disorders
• History of participating in a counseling program
• Currently receiving individual or group counseling
• Unable to attend more than two sessions
• Diagnosed with a physical or mental disorder during group sessions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Counseling

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention was conducted in two groups with 25 participants/12-13 for each groups and two researchers per group. The program which consisted of eight sessions in total, was held once a week and each session lasted approximately 90-120 minutes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness based cognitive counseling group

No Intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will not be given an intervention until after they have completed the study. Data collection tools were applied to the students simultaneously with the intervention group, and after the follow-up test of the intervention group, a single-session information meeting will be held by the researchers for the students in the control group.