The Effect of MIND-BE Program on Mental Health Parameters (Mindfulness Based Empowerment)

It was developed by Friborg et al. The Turkish validity and reliability of the scale was done by Basım and Çetin. The 33-item scale consists of six sub-dimensions: "Self Perception", "Future Perception", "Structural Style", "Social Competence", "Family Cohesion" and "Social Resources". Opposite each item in the scale, there are five boxes with changing expressions for each question and showing a five-point Likert structure. Questions 1,3,4,8,11,12,13,14,15,16,23,24,25,27,31,33 in the scale without any cutoff point are reverse coded. The scoring of the boxes ranges from 1 to 5 for flat coded items; from 5 to 1 for reverse coded items. The total Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the scale is 0.86, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the sub-dimensions range from 0.66 to 0.81.

It was developed by Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996). The Turkish validity and reliability of the scale was done by Kağan et al. (2012). Consisting of 21 items in total, the scale has a six-grade Likert structure (No way (0), Very little (1), A little (2), Moderate (3), Quite a lot (4), Very much (5)) . The scale consists of three sub-dimensions: "self-perception", "change in philosophy of life" and "relationship with others". An increase in the scores obtained from the scale without any cut-off point indicates that the level of post-traumatic growth increases. Similarly, the increase in the scores obtained from the sub-dimensions indicates that the sub-dimensions with increasing scores are used more. The Cronbach's alpha values of the scale ranged from 0.92, and the Cronbach's alpha values of the sub-dimensions ranged from 0.77 to 0.88.

The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), developed by Brown and Ryan (2003), is a 15-item scale that measures the general tendency to be aware of and attentive to momentary experiences in daily life. MAAS has a single factor structure and gives a single total score. High scores on the scale indicate high conscious awareness. The MAAS is a 6-point Likert-type scale (almost always, often, sometimes, rarely, quite rarely, almost never). The internal consistency coefficient was determined as 0.80 in the Turkish adaptation study of the MAAS by Özçiçek et al. (2011).

Developed by Neff (2003), Akın et al. (2007), the self-compassion scale (self-compassion scale) consists of 26 items and six subscales (self-compassion, self-judgment, shared human experience, isolation, mindfulness, and hyper-identification). In this scale, which has a five-point Likert-type rating; almost never (1), rarely, sometimes, often, almost always (5). In the study of Akın et al. (2007), the internal consistency of the subscales ranged between 0.72 and 0.80.

The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) is based on the 90-item Symptom Check List (SCL-90) distributed over nine factors, and is a 53-item scale consisting of the items with the highest load in each factor. The scale is a Likert-type self-evaluation inventory developed by Deregotis in 1992. The scale is the short form of the Mental Symptom Checklist and consists of five subscales and three global indexes. As a result of these studies, in the Turkish adaptation of the scale by Şahin and Durak (2002), the BSI was organized into five subsections as "Anxiety", "Depression", "Negative Self", "Somatization" and "Hostility". An increase in the total score indicates an increase in the weight of the question. There is no cut-off value for BSI. The alpha coefficients found for the subscales of BSI in the study were Depression, α=0.88; anxiety, α=0.87; negative self, α=0.87; somatization, α=0.75; hostility is listed as α=0.76. The points that can be obtained from the inventory range from 0 to 212.