Emotion Regulation Skill Program: Impact on Emotion Regulation, Experiential Avoidance & Compassion Fatigue
NCT ID: NCT06766682
Last Updated: 2025-01-13
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Basic Information
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NOT_YET_RECRUITING
NA
66 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2025-03-03
2025-08-02
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The literature highlights that emotional regulation strategies, which involve specific skills to modify emotional experiences, play a significant role in the development of various psychopathological disorders and affect mental health. Maladaptive strategies such as experiential avoidance-defined as avoiding situations or thoughts to escape distressing emotions-have been linked to increased risks of anxiety, depression, and burnout. Effective emotional regulation strategies are crucial for maintaining mental health and influencing behaviors. Increased experiential avoidance among healthcare workers has been associated with higher levels of burnout.
Empathy is a cornerstone of psychosocial care for patients and their families in oncology clinics. However, failure to regulate emotions during empathetic interactions can result in compassion fatigue, characterized by physical and emotional exhaustion, anger, disengagement, reduced job performance, and patient dissatisfaction. Effective emotional regulation supports the delivery of empathetic care and protects the psychosocial well-being of nurses. Emotional regulation enhances individuals' emotional awareness and enables more conscious and controlled management of emotions. This study aims to investigate the impact of an emotional regulation skills development program on oncology nurses' emotional regulation difficulties, experiential avoidance, and compassion fatigue in challenging work environments.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
SINGLE
Study Groups
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The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation
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.
The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation
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.
Control Group
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.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation
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.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* 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.
Exclusion Criteria
* 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
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Hacettepe University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Aycan Kayalar
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigators
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DUYGU HİÇDURMAZ, Professor
Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
Hacettepe University
Locations
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Hacettepe University
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey (Türkiye)
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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AYCAN KAYALAR, PhD Student
Role: backup
DUYGU HİÇDURMAZ, PROFESSOR
Role: backup
References
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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.
Figley, C. R. (2013). Compassion fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized. Routledge.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Other Identifiers
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AYCAN KAYALAR
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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