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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Earthquake

Age range

18 year–29 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Gaziantep University

Gaziantep, Turkey (Türkiye)

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

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

Behavioral

The 9-session cognitive behavioral approach-based psychoeducation program will last 5 weeks. Sessions; It will be carried out in the form of acquaintance, recognition of trauma and its effects, emotion and thought behavior analysis, cognitive errors, automatic thoughts and alternative thought generation, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, coping with negative emotions, instilling hope and termination session.

Primary outcomes

cognitive emotion regulation scale

Time frame: Two months

The scale consists of 36 items, with 9 subscales and 4 items in each subscale. Each subscale receives a value between 4-20 points and the scale is a 5-point Likert type scale (1: Never, 2: Sometimes, 47 3: Regularly, 4: Frequently, 5: Always).Evaluation is made with the scores obtained from the subscales. A higher score from a subscale indicates greater use of the cognitive emotion regulation strategy determined by that subscale.
Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale

Time frame: Two months

The scale consists of 21 items, with 3 sub-dimensions (depression, anxiety and stress) and 7 items in each sub-dimension.

The scale is designed as a self-evaluation scale with a 4-point Likert structure scored between 0-4. (0- Never, 1- Sometimes and occasionally, 2- Quite often, 3- Always). The scoring range of the scale for depression is: 0-4 normal, 5-6 mild, 7-10 moderate, 11-13 severe, 14 and above very severe; for anxiety: 0-3 normal, 4-5 mild, 6-7 moderate, 8-9 severe, and 10 and above very severe; For stress: 0-7 is normal, 8-9 is mild, 10-12 is moderate, 13-16 is severe, 17 and above is very severe.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Osmaniye Korkut Ata University

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Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start: 2023
Primary completion: 2023
Study completion: 2023
First posted: Sep 21, 2023
Registry last updated: Apr 19, 2024

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