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NCT Number: NCT05508048

The Effects of Logotherapy Based Psychosocial Support Program on Nursing Students on the Meaning of Life and Life Satisfaction

This study is a psychosocial intervention program designed to intervene in the meaning of life and existential problems and life satisfaction in nursing students, especially during the epidemic. In the short term, it expects that students will gain awareness, especially in areas such as life satisfaction, anxiety, aimlessness, the meaning of life, deterioration in functionality, and in the long term, the individual's ultimate issues (death, loneliness, meaning and responsibility) and provide a perspective that can cope with the problems that may arise in these areas. Based on all these, it is aimed to raise awareness of the meaning of life and life satisfaction in nursing students, who constitute a young population, with the existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program.

H1. The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program will affect the experimental group's meaning and purpose of life scale scores.

H2. The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program will affect the experimental group's life satisfaction scale scores.

H3. After the existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program, there will be a significant difference between the experimental and control groups' meaning and purpose of life scores.

H4. After the existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program, there will be a significant difference between the experimental and control groups' life satisfaction scores.

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Key information

Conditions

Meaning of Life and Life Satisfaction Behavior Personal Satisfaction

Age range

18 year–26 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa

Istanbul, Turkey (Türkiye)

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Completed mental health and psychiatric nursing course
  • Agreeing to participate as a result of the research announcement
  • No acute psychiatric problem
  • Those who have not lost their first-degree relative due to Covid-19

Exclusion criteria

  • Having an acute psychiatric problem
  • Those who lost their first-degree relative due to Covid-19

Treatment and study plan

The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program

Behavioral

Existential Approach and Logotherapy Based Support Program, which raises awareness about the meaning and purpose of the individual's life, enables them to produce solutions to the sense of meaninglessness, anxiety, feeling of emptiness, and many other problems, and develops different perspectives.The content of the program is base on existential analysis and logotherapy. The program lasted for eight weeks, with the first and last session of the scale applications. Additional sessions were set for each session where the aims and objectives of the session could not achieve. A session lasting at least 50 minutes were held each week.

Primary outcomes

  1. Group Difference-Meaning and Purpose

    Time frame: 10 weeks

    A statistically significant difference was determined in terms of the last measurement MPLS-total scores according to the groups.

  2. Between Groups Difference-Life Satisfaction

    Time frame: 10 weeks

    A statistically significant difference was found in terms of the last measurement life satisfaction scale scores according to the groups.

  3. In Group Difference-Life Satisfaction

    Time frame: 10 weeks

    A statistically significant difference was found in the first measurement - last measurement life satisfaction scale scores of the experimental group.

  4. In Group Difference-Meaning and Purpose

    Time frame: 10 weeks

    A statistically significant difference was found in the first measurement - last measurement MPLS- total scores of the experimental group.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Kübra Arslantürk Khalil

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Registry information

Official study title

The Effects of Existential Approach and Logotherapy Based Psychosocial Support Program on Nursing Students in Period of Pandemic on the Meaning of Life and Life Satisfaction

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2022
First posted
Aug 19, 2022
Registry last updated
Aug 19, 2022

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