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

Osmaniye Korkut Ata University61 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Earthquake

Interventions

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.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 29 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

cognitive emotion regulation scale

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.

Time frame: Two months

Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale

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.