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

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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Meaning of Life and Life Satisfaction
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 60
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Istanbul, Turkey
    • İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 22 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control Group
Experimental: Experimental Group; The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program intervention	Behavioral: The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program; 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Group Difference-Meaning and Purpose	A statistically significant difference was determined in terms of the last measurement MPLS-total scores according to the groups.	10 weeks
Between Groups Difference-Life Satisfaction	A statistically significant difference was found in terms of the last measurement life satisfaction scale scores according to the groups.	10 weeks
In Group Difference-Life Satisfaction	A statistically significant difference was found in the first measurement - last measurement life satisfaction scale scores of the experimental group.	10 weeks
In Group Difference-Meaning and Purpose	A statistically significant difference was found in the first measurement - last measurement MPLS- total scores of the experimental group.	10 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Kübra Arslantürk Khalil

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 21, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 21, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): July 20, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 16, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 18, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): August 19, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 19, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 18, 2022
• Last Verified: August 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Kübra Arslantürk Khalil

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

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