Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Based Group Psychoeducation for Nursing Students

October 19, 2024 updated by: Tugba Yildirim

Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Based Group Psychoeducatıon Applied to Nursing Students on Psychological Flexibility and Somatic Symptoms

In this study, the effects of acceptance and commitment therapy-based group psychoeducation applied to nursing students on psychological flexibility and somatic symptoms will be examined. The research will be carried out as a randomized controlled experimental study with a pre-test-post-test and follow-up design.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The stress factors that nursing students encounter differ from other students. One of the reasons for this is that the nursing curriculum includes working simultaneously in both theoretical and clinical environments. In a study, it was determined that nursing students' lack of stress coping skills caused internal stressors to turn into external stressors. When these individuals cannot cope with situations that cause stress, they can express the stress they experience with somatic symptoms. Somatic symptom disorder is defined as the state of seeking help for mental problems with somatic symptoms. The inability to treat these somatic symptoms of individuals forces them to live with these symptoms for years and sometimes for a lifetime and continue to seek treatment. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which provides a new perspective for individuals to cope with stressful life events, aims to gain psychological flexibility, which is the capacity for individuals to experience challenging conditions at the moment they are in and to behave in a way that is compatible with their value areas under these conditions. The opposite of psychological flexibility is psychological inflexibility. Experiential avoidance is one of the basic components of the concept of psychological inflexibility. The state of escape and avoidance and actions that occur when an individual does not want to be in contact with situations that stress them are defined as experiential avoidance. When the relevant literature is examined, it has been reported that somatic symptoms are seen as experiential avoidance behaviors in individuals. The continuity of somatic symptoms as a reaction to stress, their inability to intervene, and their chronicity cause them to turn into a somatic somatic symptom disorder. Since nursing students are a highly stressed group, their reactions to stress should be observed, somatic symptoms in these students should be evaluated, and psychological flexibility should be increased before somatic symptoms turn into disorders and students start their professions, and healthier members of the profession should be trained in terms of mental and physical health. However, psychosocial intervention studies that will help with somatic symptoms continue to be the subject of very little research.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

54

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Turkey
    • Çankırı
      • Merkez, Çankırı, Turkey, 18200
        • Tuğba Yildirim

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Volunteering to participate in the study
  • No problems understanding and speaking Turkish
  • Having moderate and high-level somatic symptoms (Scoring 26 or higher on the Bradford Somatic Inventory)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Scoring 25 or less on the Bradford Somatic Inventory
  • Having been diagnosed with a chronic/systemic physical illness
  • Having been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness
  • Being on medication for a current physical or psychiatric illness
  • Have received or are receiving individual or group psychotherapy/counseling programs within the last two years
  • Being a foreign national
  • Being pregnant

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Acceptance and commitment therapy based group psychoeducation
Acceptance and commitment therapybased group psychoeducation to be carried out with the experimental group is planned as 8 sessions. The sessions are planned to be held in 3 groups of 9 people each. The duration of a session is planned to be approximately 90 minutes. Group psychoeducation with the experimental group will be carried out face-to-face every week. The appropriate day for the sessions will be decided together with themembers of each group. The same group session will be held on the same day and time every week.
Other: Acceptance and commitment therapy based group psychoeducation
Acceptance and commitment therapy-based group psychoeducation aimed at increasing nursing students' psychological flexibility and reducing their somatic symptoms.
No Intervention: No Intervention: Waiting list group

After the follow-up tests were completed, it was planned to apply the 8-session group psychoeducation applied to the intervention group in the same way to the control group, upon their request.

Intervention: Acceptance and commitment therapy-based group psychoeducation aimed at increasing students' psychological flexibility and reducing their somatic symptoms.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in the Psychological Flexibility Scale
Time Frame: Baseline, 8th week, 1st month follow-up, 3rd month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design
The Psychological Flexibility Scale consists of 28 items and five sub-dimensions. The sub-dimensions of the scale are: "Values and committed action", "Contact with the present moment", "Acceptance", "Self as Context" and "Defusion." The increase in the scores obtained from the sub-dimensions and total scores of the scale means that individuals are psychologically flexible. The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is 28, and the highest is 196.
Baseline, 8th week, 1st month follow-up, 3rd month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Bradford Somatic Symptom Inventory Change
Time Frame: screening, baseline, 8th week, 1st month follow-up, 3rd month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design)
Bradford Somatic Inventory consists of 44 items. It questions the individual's experience of a wide variety of somatic symptoms on less than 15 days or more than 15 days during the previous month. In the total score of the scale, 0-25 is the low range, 26-40 is the medium range, and>40 is the high range.
screening, baseline, 8th week, 1st month follow-up, 3rd month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design)

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Inclusion Form
Time Frame: screening
The inclusion form is a seven-question form prepared by the researcher to determine the disease status of nursing students (physical and psychiatric disease diagnosis, treatment, psychotherapy, or psychological counseling status) and sociodemographic characteristics (nationality and pregnancy status).
screening
Participant Information Form
Time Frame: baseline, 8th week, 1st month follow-up, 3rd month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design)
The participant information form is a ten-question form prepared by the researcher to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of nursing students (age, gender, class information, marital status, mother's education status, father's education status, family income status, family type, where they lived before starting university and who they currently live with).
baseline, 8th week, 1st month follow-up, 3rd month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Tugba Yildirim

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Tuğba YILDIRIM, Cankiri Karatekin University, Cankiri, Turkey, 18200

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

April 18, 2024

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 13, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

September 13, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 11, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 11, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

August 14, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

October 23, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 19, 2024

Last Verified

August 1, 2024

More Information

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Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Tuğba YILDIRIM

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

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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