The Effect of Self-Compassion Interventions on Nursing Students' Stress, Resilience, and Psychological Well-Being

NCT06754683 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: NEU/2024/128-1889
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 64
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The study aims to determine the impact of self-compassion-based psycho-education on supporting nursing students in managing stress, improving their resilience, and enhancing their self-compassion and psychological well-being (PWB). Self-compassion involves being kind to oneself during challenging times; it provides practical tools and knowledge to enhance personal growth and resilience. By participating in this program, nursing students may learn strategies to improve their coping with the pressure of studies, build emotional strength, and improve their psychological well-being. The study will measure the participants' levels of self-compassion, stress, resilience, and psychological well-being using a validated questionnaire before and after participation in the program and compare them to determine the program's impact on the abovementioned variables.

Conditions

To Determine the Impact of Self-compassion Intervention

Keywords

Self-compassion; Stress; Resilience; Psychological Well-being; Nursing Students

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change in self-compassion score as measured by state self-compassion scale (SSCS-L)

  Self-compassion score as measured by the SSCS-L, is a 5 rating scale with 1= not at all true for me to 5= Very true for me with a total of 18 items that can assess total (composite) self-compassion score as well as the six (kindness, self-judgment, mindfulness, over-identification, common humanity and isolation) individual elements of self-compassion. To compute a total state self-compassion score: the investigators will take the mean of each subscale, to compute a total mean (the average of the six subscale means as suggested by the scale authors). The score cut-off point is 1.0-2.49 to be low, 2.5-3.5 to moderate, and 3.51-5.0 to be high. When examining subscale scores, higher scores on the self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification scale indicate less self-compassion before reverse-coding, and more self-compassion after reverse coding.

  Baseline, 8 Weeks

• Psychological well-being score as measured by brief inventory of thriving scale (BITS)

  Psychological well-being score as measured by brief inventory of thriving scale, it is a 5 Likert rating scale with 1= totally disagree to 5= totally agree with a total of 10 items. The scores cut off point is 1.0-2.49 to be low, between 2.5-3.5 to be moderate, and 3.51-5.0 to be high.

  Baseline, 8 Weeks

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change in stress score as measured by student nurse stress index scale (SNSI)

  Baseline, 8 Weeks

• Change in resilience score as measured by Connor-Davidson-Resilience-Scale (CD-RISC-10 scale).

  Baseline, 8 Weeks

Study Arms (2)

Self-compassion based psycho-education intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

8-week Self-compassion based psycho-education intervention

Behavioral: 8 weeks Self-compassion based psycho-education

Wait-list control group

NO INTERVENTION

A pre-test will be conducted in the first week and the post-test in the 8th week.

Interventions

8 weeks Self-compassion based psycho-education BEHAVIORAL

The Self-compassion psychoeducational intervention will be utilized as the intervention in this study will be delivered by the first investigator and supervised by the Principal investigator, who has experience in mindfulness and self-compassion practices. It will consist of eight weekly 1.5 hours of face-to-face sessions and 1 hour each week of online sessions. Each session will be according to a specific topic that will cover the objectives of the study, incorporating the concept of self-compassion interventions based on the research literature and input from experts in the field, taking into consideration the needs of the participants. Participants will be required to have at least 80% of attendance for intervention completion.

Self-compassion based psycho-education intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• International students of Nursing Faculty
• The participants should be able to communicate effectively using the English language.
• Participants did not participate in self-compassion -based training before
• The subject has commenced clinical posting and experience.
• Participants with low self-compassion score in the preliminary survey

You may not qualify if:

• Participants receiving psychotherapy
• Participants who are currently enrolled in any online or face-to-face stress management training or course.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Near East University, Turkey: lead

Study Sites (1)

Near East University, Turkey

Yakın Doğu Bulvarı, Mersin 10, 99138, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Related Publications (10)

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  BACKGROUND

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  BACKGROUND

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  BACKGROUND

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  BACKGROUND

• Yang Z, Tse MMY, Huang H, Fang H, Chung JWY, Chong DYK, Wong TKS. Evaluating the feasibility and preliminary effects of an online compassion training program for nursing students: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Int J Nurs Sci. 2024 Aug 12;11(4):421-428. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnss.2024.08.007. eCollection 2024 Sep.

  PMID: 39830914 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Psychological Well-Being

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Personal Satisfaction; Behavior

Study Officials

• SAMINEH ESMAEILZADEH, PhD

  Near East University, Turkey

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: After the study period for the intervention group, the control group will be switched to the intervention group for the same period.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 23, 2024
• First Posted: January 1, 2025
• Study Start: March 26, 2025
• Primary Completion: August 2, 2025
• Study Completion: August 2, 2025
• Last Updated: April 8, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: IPD will be shared within 6-12 months after the publication of results in a peer-reviewed journal
• Access Criteria: Researchers and participants will be able to access data on all collected IPD and all IPD that underlie results in the result publication of this study

Locations

TU (1)