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

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

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 Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Earthquake
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Group included in a psychoeducational program based on the cognitive behavioral approach (experiment)

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 61
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Gaziantep, Turkey
    • Gaziantep University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Group included in a psychoeducational program based on cognitive behavioral approach (experiment); Emerging adults between the ages of 18-29 who experienced the Kahramanmaraş 2023 earthquake in Turkey constitute the experimental group. The cognitive behavioral approach-based psychoeducation program will be implemented in 9 sessions, two days a week and 90 minutes a day.In the psychoeducation program, based on the cognitive behavioral approach, trauma and trauma symptoms, emotion-thought-behavior analysis, cognitive errors, automatic thoughts, alternative thought generation, mentality and distorted thoughts that reveal feelings of depression, anxiety, stress, anger, guilt, inadequacy, helplessness, The cognitive aspect of hopelessness and methods of coping with negative emotions will be discussed.The training program includes verbal expression, visual material (projection), question and answer, homework, sample stories, entertaining activities, warm-up games, etc. It will be continued and feedback will be shared.	Behavioral: Group included in a psychoeducational program based on the cognitive behavioral approach (experiment); 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.
No Intervention: Group not included in the psychoeducation program based on cognitive behavioral approach (Control); No intervention will be made to this group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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.	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.	Two months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: AHMET ÇAPAR, lecturer, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 23, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 24, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): December 25, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 13, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 13, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): September 21, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 19, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 17, 2024
• Last Verified: April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: emerging adulthood; psychoeducation; cognitive behavioral approach; cognitive emotion regulation; negative emotional symptoms
• Other Study ID Numbers: OKU-SBF-AC-01

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