The Effect of Psychoeducation on Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Negative Emotional Symptoms

Osmaniye Korkut Ata University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Earthquake

Treatments: Behavioral: Group included in a psychoeducational program based on the cognitive behavioral approach (experiment)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06045637

OKU-SBF-AC-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research was planned to determine the effect of cognitive behavioral approach-based psychoeducation on the cognitive emotion regulation strategies and negative emotional symptom levels of emerging adults who experienced an earthquake. In this research, pre-test, post-test and follow-up test will be performed and there will be 1 experimental and 1 control group created by randomization.After the pre-test applied to the experimental and control groups, a 9-session cognitive behavioral approach-based psychoeducation program will be applied to the experimental group.Following this application, post-test and one-month follow-up tests will be administered to both groups and the effectiveness of the psychoeducation program will be compared.

Enrollment: 61 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the study,
• Being in the 18-29 age group,
• Being at least a primary school graduate,
• Being exposed to/having experienced the Kahramanmaraş earthquake and living in the center of Osmaniye.

Exclusion criteria

• Having a hearing or speech disability that makes it difficult to answer surveys,
• Participating in a similar psychoeducation program,
• Presence of any psychiatric disorder and receiving treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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61 participants in 2 patient groups

Group included in a psychoeducational program based on cognitive behavioral approach (experiment)

Experimental group

Description:

Emerging adults between the ages of 18-29 who experienced the Kahramanmaraş 2023 earthquake in Turkey constitute the experimental group. The cognitive behavioral approach-based psychoeducation program will be implemented in 9 sessions, two days a week and 90 minutes a day.In the psychoeducation program, based on the cognitive behavioral approach, trauma and trauma symptoms, emotion-thought-behavior analysis, cognitive errors, automatic thoughts, alternative thought generation, mentality and distorted thoughts that reveal feelings of depression, anxiety, stress, anger, guilt, inadequacy, helplessness, The cognitive aspect of hopelessness and methods of coping with negative emotions will be discussed.The training program includes verbal expression, visual material (projection), question and answer, homework, sample stories, entertaining activities, warm-up games, etc. It will be continued and feedback will be shared.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group included in a psychoeducational program based on the cognitive behavioral approach (experiment)

Group not included in the psychoeducation program based on cognitive behavioral approach (Control)

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will be made to this group.