Anger Management and Violent Behavior in Adolescents

NCT04951271 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Adolescent, anger management
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 48
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The research was conducted to examine the effect of solution focused approach on anger management and violent behavior in adolescents.

Conditions

Adolescent; Anger; Violent Behavior

Keywords

Solution Focused Approach; Adolescent; Anger Management; Violent Behavior; Psychiatric nursing

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Trait Anger and Anger Expression level in adolescents

  The primary outcome of this study was the mean adolescents trait anger level and Anger Expression level of the at 1 week and 4 weeks after solution-focused intervention. These levels of adolescents were evaluated using the State-Trait Anger Expression Scale (STAXI). The scale comprises 34 items and 2 sub-dimensions. The first 10 items of the scale indicate trait anger. The highest score that can be obtained from the Trait Anger scale is 40 and the lowest score is 10. A high score indicates that the individual has a high level of trait anger. The 24 items after the first 10 items consist of items measuring anger expression styles. 8 of these items are related to keeping anger in, 8 of them are related to keeping anger out, and the remaining 8 are related to anger control. The lowest score that can be obtained from each of these 3 sub-dimensions is 8, and the highest score is 32. A high score indicates high anger-in and anger-out levels, while low anger control.

  4 weeks after solution-focused intervention

• Violent Behavior level in adolescents

  The other main outcome of the study was the adolescents' violence tendency level at 1 week and 4 weeks after the solution-focused intervention. The violence tendency level of the adolescents was evaluated using the Violence Tendency Scale (VTS). The scale consists of 20 items. The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is 20, and the highest score is 60. A high score indicates that the level of violence tendency of the individual is also high.

  4 weeks after solution-focused intervention

Study Arms (2)

Intervention (SFA) group

EXPERIMENTAL

solution-focused approach intervention was applied for 7 weeks

Behavioral: Solution focused approach

Control (no intervention) group

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention was made.

Interventions

Solution focused approach BEHAVIORAL

The SFA intervention consists of seven sessions, one preparation and six solution-oriented sessions. Each session lasted 55 minutes. Filling in the applied scales was excluded from this period. Sessions were held once a week in two groups (Grade 10 and Grade 11 students).

Intervention (SFA) group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Volunteering to participate in research
• High tendency to violence score
• High trait anger score
• Anger control score is low

You may not qualify if:

• With a psychiatric diagnosis
• Diagnosed with an organic chronic disease
• Participating in any support group or psychotherapy
• Students with special educational needs

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Pamukkale University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Pamukkale University

Denizli, Kınıklı Campus, 20160, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Officials

• Ebru Akbaş, RN, PhD

  Pamukkale University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Gülay Taşdemir Yiğitoğlu, RN, PhD

  Pamukkale University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Which students were included in the experimental and control groups was determined by simple randomization. Thus, a one-way blinding was made by preventing the adolescent students included in the study from knowing whether they were in the experimental group or the control group.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: This research is a single-blind, randomized controlled study with a control group design with pre-test and post-test measurements from experimental research designs.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 23, 2021
• First Posted: July 6, 2021
• Study Start: January 15, 2020
• Primary Completion: January 15, 2020
• Study Completion: April 15, 2020
• Last Updated: August 2, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)