The Effects of Interpersonal Relationship Psychotherapy and Laughter Therapy

Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Midwifery Students

Treatments: Behavioral: laughter therapy; Behavioral: psychotherapy of interpersonal relationships; Behavioral: Plasebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06283810

2023/168

Details and patient eligibility

About

Midwives, who have an important place in the health system, are expected to be equipped to meet the health care needs of women (Fışkın & Doğan, 2020). Therefore, midwifery students, who are known to play a role in promoting women's health, should have good interpersonal relationships, good problem-solving skills, and high self-reflection and insight, which are assumed to be effective in both, in order to fulfill these responsibilities.

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Full description

Self-reflection supports the development of strategies for self-monitoring and professional competence by improving problem-solving skills. Self-reflection serves as an important building block in the integration and structuring of experience and sense of self, as well as providing continuity, coherence and meaning to life. It is thought that midwives with self-reflection will be more logical, healthy, happy and successful. It is seen that midwives with high self-reflection are dedicated to lifelong learning, examining, reflecting and developing, and develop personally and professionally (Bass et al., 2022). The quality of care will increase as midwives who develop self-reflection can observe, investigate, evaluate and discover events with a realistic eye while providing care, thus the midwifery profession will progress as a scientific discipline.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • To be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd year student of Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery.
• To get less than 2 points from the "General Health Questionnaire".

Exclusion criteria

• • Those with an indifferent attachment style,
• Those with antisocial or narcissistic traits,
• Those with active suicidal thoughts,
• People with psychiatric diagnosis and medication,
• Those with urinary incontinence,
• Those with severe back pain,
• Those who have undergone surgical operation within the last 1 year.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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46 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

psychotherapy of interpersonal relationships

Experimental group

Description:

"Informed Consent Form" and "Voluntary Consent Form" will be presented to the students assigned to Group 1 in the first interview and their consent will be obtained, "Student Information Form (ANNEX-1)", "CIBS (ANNEX-3)", PCI (ANNEX-4), CPI (ANNEX-5) and SB3S (ANNEX-6) will be applied. After the initial data are collected, 2-3 sessions of individual interviews will be conducted to assess the student's suitability for Group CIPT.

Treatment:

Behavioral: psychotherapy of interpersonal relationships

laughter therapy

Experimental group

Description:

In the first interview, "Informed Consent Form" and "Voluntary Consent Form" will be presented to the students assigned to Group 2 and their consent will be obtained, and "Student Information Form (ANNEX-1)", "CIBS (ANNEX-3)", PCI (ANNEX-4), CPI (ANNEX-5) and SB3S (ANNEX-6) will be applied. After the initial data were collected, the students in Experiment 2 will be informed about Laughter Therapy and Group IPT. An agreement will be made with the students about the points to be considered regarding laughter therapy

Treatment:

Behavioral: laughter therapy

Plasebo group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

"Informed Consent Form" and "Voluntary Consent Form" were presented to the students in the placebo group in the first interview and their consent was obtained, "Student Information Form (ANNEX-1)", "CIBS (ANNEX-3)", PCI (ANNEX-4), CPI (ANNEX-5) and SB3S (ANNEX-6) were applied.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Plasebo

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The students assigned to G4 will be informed that they are in the control group and that no application will be made. After the completion of the study data (by giving information about Group CIPT and laughter therapy), it will be stated that they can receive Group CIPT or laughter therapy if they wish.