Program Development Study for Emotional Intelligence

Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education; Nursing; Emotional Intelligence; Nurse's Role

Treatments: Behavioral: Plasebo Training Group; Behavioral: Emotional Intelligence Development Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05379361

IUC-FNHF

Details and patient eligibility

About

For qualified nursing care, emotional intelligence skills of nurses should be developed during their vocational training. This research was carried out in order to develop and evaluate the Emotional Intelligence Training Program based on the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Model for nursing students in line with Demirel's program development model.

Full description

The experiment was planned in a randomized controlled experimental design with placebo, control group (pretest-posttest control pattern), blind technique. It is a research with a mixed pattern, since the individual in-depth interview method, one of the qualitative research methods, is also used in the research together with quantitative methods. The research was carried out with first-year nursing faculty students (N: 250) of a university.

The Emotional Intelligence training program created and was applied to the experimental group in the specified period. In order to minimize the risk of interaction, a different training program was simultaneously applied to the placebo group.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The average score of the students on the emotional intelligence scale is in the range of 1-4 points.
• Willingness to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Have received or receiving professional psychological or psychiatric support

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Emotional Intelligence Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Nursing students, whose Emotional Intelligence skills were aimed to be developed, formed the intervention group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotional Intelligence Development Program

Environmental Awareness Educational Group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

It is a group created to eliminate the risk of interaction about the intervention made due to the fact that nursing students are studying in the same semester and at the same faculty. Different from the intervention group, the students selected for this group were trained on environmental awareness, which is not related to Emotional Intelligence concepts and skills.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Plasebo Training Group

No Intervention: Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group consisted of the students who continued their nursing education and did not have any intervention or application for the development of emotional intelligence skills.