Emotion Regulation Skill Program: Impact on Emotion Regulation, Experiential Avoidance & Compassion Fatigue

NCT06766682 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: AYCAN KAYALAR
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 66
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

In this study, the effects of the skills development program for regulating emotions applied to oncology nurses on oncology nurses' emotion regulation, experiential avoidance, and comorbidity fatigue will be examined. The research will be conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study with pretest-posttest and follow-up design.

Conditions

Compassion Fatigue; Experiential Avoidance; Emotion Regulation Abilities; Emotion Regulation

Keywords

oncology nursing; difficulty in emotion regulation; emotion regulation skill; experiential avoidance; compassion fatigue

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form

  Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form consists of 16 items and 5 sub-dimensions in 5-point Likert type (1=almost never, 5=almost always). It has five sub-dimensions: Clarity, Goals, Impulse, Strategies, and Non-Acceptance. A minimum score of 16 points and a maximum score of 80 points can be obtained from the scale and high scores obtained from the sub-dimensions and total score of the scale indicate that emotion regulation difficulties are high.

  [Time Frame: Baseline, 3th week, 3st month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in the Emotion Regulation Skills Scale

  [Time Frame: Baseline, 3th week, 3st month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design)

Other Outcomes (3)

• Change in the Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Scale-30

  [Time Frame: Baseline, 3th week, 3st month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design)

• Change in the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale

  [Time Frame: Baseline, 3th week, 3st month follow-up) (Pretest-posttest follow-up experimental design)

• Participant Information Form

  Time Frame: baseline

Study Arms (2)

The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation

EXPERIMENTAL

The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation to be carried out with the intervention group consists of 6 sessions. The sessions are planned to be held in 3 groups of 11 people. The duration of a session is planned to be 90 minutes. Sessions will be completed in three weeks, twice a week. Sessions will be face-to-face. The session of the same group will be held on the same day and time every week.

Behavioral: The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

After the follow-up tests were completed for the nurses in the control group, the 6-session skill program applied to the intervention group was planned to be applied in the same way within their wishes.

Interventions

The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation BEHAVIORAL

The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation to be carried out with the intervention group was planned as 6 sessions. The aim of this study was to investigate The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation Program on oncology nurses' emotion regulation difficulties, emotion regulation skills, experiential avoidance, and compassion fatigue.

The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation

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 the research
• Working in the specified units for at least six months
• Not having a disease or disability would make it difficult for them to understand the program and data collection tools and to apply the skills.

You may not qualify if:

• Having received or currently receiving individual or group psychotherapy/counseling program within the last six months
• Requesting to withdraw from the study at any stage of the research
• Regularly missing two consecutive group sessions
• Failure to attend three or more sessions in total

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hacettepe University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hacettepe University

Ankara, Ankara, 06100, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Related Publications (9)

• Barnett MD, Hays KN, Cantu C. Compassion fatigue, emotional labor, and emotional display among hospice nurses. Death Stud. 2022;46(2):290-296. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2019.1699201. Epub 2019 Dec 9.

  PMID: 31814533 BACKGROUND

• Figley, C. R. (2013). Compassion fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized. Routledge.

  BACKGROUND

• Guner P, Hicdurmaz D, Kocaman Yildirim N, Inci F. Psychosocial care from the perspective of nurses working in oncology: A qualitative study. Eur J Oncol Nurs. 2018 Jun;34:68-75. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2018.03.005. Epub 2018 Mar 16.

  PMID: 29784141 BACKGROUND

• Lincoln, T. M., Schulze, L., & Renneberg, B. (2022). The role of emotion regulation in the characterization, development and treatment of psychopathology. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(5), 272-286

  BACKGROUND

• Yiğit, İ. ve Guzey-Yiğit, M. (2019). Psychometric properties of Turkish version of difficulties in emotion regulation scale-brief form (DERS-16). Current Psychology, 38, 1503-1511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-017-9712-7

  BACKGROUND

• Zheng RS, Guo QH, Dong FQ, Owens RG. Chinese oncology nurses' experience on caring for dying patients who are on their final days: a qualitative study. Int J Nurs Stud. 2015 Jan;52(1):288-96. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.09.009. Epub 2014 Oct 5.

  PMID: 25445033 BACKGROUND

• Lyu XC, Jiang HJ, Lee LH, Yang CI, Sun XY. Oncology nurses' experiences of providing emotional support for cancer patients: a qualitative study. BMC Nurs. 2024 Jan 20;23(1):58. doi: 10.1186/s12912-024-01718-1.

  PMID: 38245735 BACKGROUND

• Kostka AM, Borodzicz A, Krzeminska SA. Feelings and Emotions of Nurses Related to Dying and Death of Patients - A Pilot Study. Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2021 Jun 4;14:705-717. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S311996. eCollection 2021.

  PMID: 34113186 BACKGROUND

• Cotter P, Holden A, Johnson C, Noakes S, Urch C, King A. Coping With the Emotional Impact of Working in Cancer Care: The Importance of Team Working and Collective Processing. Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 15;13:877938. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.877938. eCollection 2022.

  PMID: 35911049 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Compassion Fatigue; Emotional Regulation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Fatigue; Fatigue; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Occupational Stress; Stress, Psychological; Self-Control; Social Behavior

Study Officials

• DUYGU HİÇDURMAZ, Professor

  Hacettepe University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

AYCAN KAYALAR, PhD Student

CONTACT

+905057582069; aycankayalar@gmail.com

DUYGU HİÇDURMAZ, Professor

CONTACT

+90 312 305 15 80 / 118; duyguh@hacettepe.edu.tr

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 5, 2025
• First Posted: January 9, 2025
• Study Start: March 3, 2025
• Primary Completion: May 2, 2025
• Study Completion: August 2, 2025
• Last Updated: January 13, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)