The Effect of Online Coping Skills Training

The Effect of Online Coping Skills Training on Stress, Social Problem Solving, and Coping Ways in Youths: A Randomized Controlled Study

An announcement will be made on Whatsapp and Instagram social media accounts for the young people who will participate in the research, and preliminary evaluations will be taken from the young people who have stated that they want to participate via e-mail and who meet the working criteria, and randomization will be provided with a computer program. A 10-week coping skills training will be given to the training group from the randomly allocated groups. The control group will be informed about their coping skills for 1 week. Both groups will receive a final evaluation 10 weeks later and a follow-up evaluation 1 month after the last evaluation.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Coping Skills
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: online coping skills training

Detailed Description

Inclusion criteria

• be over 18 years old
• No barriers to communication
• Not having any health problems
• Getting a score of 11 or higher on the Perceived Stress Scale Exclusion criteria
• Being over 25 years old Being receiving a concurrent psychological treatment/therapy Sample Size 90 participants will be divided into two groups as intervention and control with the online randomization program. It is foreseen that there will be approximately 45 young people in each group.

research design In this study, pretest-posttest and follow-up design including control and training groups will be used.

An announcement will be made on Whatsapp and Instagram social media accounts for the young people who will participate in the research, and preliminary evaluations will be taken from the young people who have stated that they want to participate via e-mail and who meet the working criteria, and randomization will be provided with a computer program. A 10-week coping skills training will be given to the training group from the randomly allocated groups. The control group will be informed about their coping skills for 1 week. Both groups will receive a final evaluation 10 weeks later and a follow-up evaluation 1 month after the last evaluation.

Independent Variables of the Research Coping Skills Training Dependent Variables of the Research Ways of Coping with Stress Scale Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) Social Problem Solving Inventory- Short Form Trait Anxiety Scale Data Collection Tools The data of the research will be obtained with Personal Sociodemographic Information Form, Ways of Coping with Stress Scale, Perceived Stress Scale (PSO) and Social Problem Solving Inventory-Short Form.

Personal Information form: It consists of questions to determine introductory features such as age, gender, marital status, educational status, occupation, health insurance, family structure.

The Ways of Coping Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, Social Problem Solving Inventory-Short Form (SPSI-SF) and Trait Anxiety Scale (STAI-2) will be used in the assessments.

Coping Skills Training

The Coping Skills Training program will take place in a total of 10 sessions, and it is planned to be implemented in a way that the entire program will be completed in 10 weeks. The duration of each session is between 40 and 50 minutes, and it is determined as 5 minutes of introduction to the session, recognizing the general topics, 5 minutes of briefly summarizing the previous session, and the topic of the session for 30-40 minutes. In all sessions, reflections prepared with the power point program will be used. In the sessions, question-answer method, audio-visual (audio-visual) method, role-playing and performance feedback phases will be used when necessary. In addition to knowledge, experiences in education will also be emphasized and it will be possible to make comparisons with the subject learned in education.

SESSION 1: Stress and the concept of stressor SESSION 2: Stress symptoms SESSION 3: Identifying the stressors of the individual, the methods used by the individual, the connection between illness and stress, positive coping methods and recognizing the problem solving steps.

SESSION 4: The effects of stress and stress-related diseases SESSION 5: Asking for help, making a decision SESSION 6: Methods of coping with stress SESSION 7: Problem solving steps SESSION 8: Stress management and therapeutic changes in lifestyle (social support, goal setting) SESSION 9: Examination of breathing techniques SESSION 10: Examining relaxation techniques At the end of the 10th session, the first evaluations will be repeated. Results data will be collected online and automatically entered into a database.

Statistical Method(s) SPSS statistical program will be used in statistical analysis. Frequency and/or mean (X) ± standard deviation (X±SD) values will be given according to the suitability of the socio-demographic characteristics of the individuals with the descriptive data. Values obtained before and after the intervention will be evaluated using the Wilcoxon Paired Test. Statistical significance level was accepted as p<0.05.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 87
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Ankara, Turkey
    • Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 25 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Young people who scored 11 points or more from the Perceived Stress Scale
• 33 points or more from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
• No barriers to communication
• Not having any health problems

Exclusion Criteria:

• older than 25 years of age
• continuing any psychotherapy
• using medication

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental: Intervention group; A 10-week coping skills training was given to the training group from the randomly separated groups. The Coping Skills Training program will take place in a total of 10 online sessions, and the entire program was implemented in 10 weeks. The duration of each session is between 40 and 50 minutes, and it is determined as 5 minutes of introduction to the session, recognizing the general topics, 5 minutes of briefly summarizing the previous session, and the subject of the session for 30-40 minutes. In all sessions, reflections previously prepared with the power point program were used. In the sessions, question-answer method, audio-visual (audio-visual) method, role-playing and performance feedback phases were used when necessary. In addition to knowledge, experiences were also emphasized in education and it was possible to make comparisons with the subject learned in education.	Behavioral: online coping skills training; Young people with high levels of stress were given online coping trainings. The content of this training was primarily aimed at raising awareness about stress by giving information about stress, and then information about coping methods with stress was shared and training on problem solving skills was provided.
Active Comparator: Comparator: Control group; The control group will be informed about their coping skills for a week. Both groups will receive a final evaluation 10 weeks later and a follow-up evaluation 1 month after the last evaluation.	Behavioral: online coping skills training; Young people with high levels of stress were given online coping trainings. The content of this training was primarily aimed at raising awareness about stress by giving information about stress, and then information about coping methods with stress was shared and training on problem solving skills was provided.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)	It's developed by Cohen, Kamarck & Mermelste in 1983. In this study, the scale adapted to Turkish was used. A five-point Likert scale (0 not at all, 4 very often) with a score between 11 and 26 indicates a low stress level, between 27 and 41 indicates a medium stress level, and between 42 and 56 indicates a high stress level.	10 week

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)	It determines how the individual feels in general, independent of the current situation and conditions. The Trait Anxiety Inventory is a 4-point Likert-type scale: (1) Almost never, (2) Sometimes, (3) Often, and (4) Almost always. The score obtained in the total of the scale takes the values of minimum 20 and maximum 80. A high total score indicates an increase in anxiety, a low score indicates a decrease in anxiety. .	10 week
The Scale of Coping Styles with Stress	Developed by Folkman and Lazarus, the scale was shortened by Şahin and Durak (1995). and adapted into Turkish. The evaluation of the items in this scale, which consists of 30 items, is made between 0-3, and the 1st and 9th items are scored by being reversed. There are 5 dimensions in the scale: self-confident approach (7 items), optimistic approach (5 items), helpless approach (8 items), submissive approach (6 items) and seeking social support (4 items). 1995). Minimum score is 0. Maximum score is 90.	10 week
Social Problem Solving Inventory-Short Form (SPSI-SF)	consists of two dimensions: "problem orientation" and "problem solving styles". In the problem orientation dimension, there are two subscales: positive problem orientation and negative problem orientation. The problem solving style dimension consists of three subscales: rational problem solving, impulsive/carelessness styles, and avoidance styles. The measurement tool consists of 5 subscales in total. There are 25 items in total in the scale. Items are graded on a five-point scale, from 0 (not at all) to 4 (totally appropriate). inimum score is 0 and maximum score is 100 point.	10 week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 25, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): September 15, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 26, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 3, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): November 4, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 4, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 3, 2021
• Last Verified: November 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2021/156

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: Personal information will also be kept confidential by researchers in accordance with the law on the protection of personal information. However, if the journal editor or referees to whom the research is sent want to see the data, it can be shared for information purposes.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No