Program Development Study for Emotional Intelligence

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Nursing; Emotional Intelligence; Education; Nurse's Role
• Interventions: Behavioral: Emotional Intelligence Development Program; Behavioral: Plasebo Training Group

• Registration Number: NCT05379361
• Lead Sponsor: Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Brief Summary

For qualified nursing care, emotional intelligence skills of nurses should be developed during their vocational training. This research was carried out in order to develop and evaluate the Emotional Intelligence Training Program based on the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Model for nursing students in line with Demirel's program development model.

Detailed Description

The experiment was planned in a randomized controlled experimental design with placebo, control group (pretest-posttest control pattern), blind technique. It is a research with a mixed pattern, since the individual in-depth interview method, one of the qualitative research methods, is also used in the research together with quantitative methods. The research was carried out with first-year nursing faculty students (N: 250) of a university.

The Emotional Intelligence training program created and was applied to the experimental group in the specified period. In order to minimize the risk of interaction, a different training program was simultaneously applied to the placebo group.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-10-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-01-01
• Study Completion: 2019-02-01
• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Study First Submitted: 2022-05-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-05-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-17
• Study First Posted: 2022-05-18
• Last Update Posted: 2022-05-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• The average score of the students on the emotional intelligence scale is in the range of 1-4 points.
• Willingness to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Have received or receiving professional psychological or psychiatric support

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Emotional Intelligence Intervention Group	Emotional Intelligence Development Program	Nursing students, whose Emotional Intelligence skills were aimed to be developed, formed the intervention group.
Environmental Awareness Educational Group	Plasebo Training Group	It is a group created to eliminate the risk of interaction about the intervention made due to the fact that nursing students are studying in the same semester and at the same faculty. Different from the intervention group, the students selected for this group were trained on environmental awareness, which is not related to Emotional Intelligence concepts and skills.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Emotional Intellligence Skills	Baseline (Before Education Program, posttest (2 weeks after education program ended)	Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Scale

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Training Program Evaluation Questionnaire	Baseline	Evaluation of the effectiveness of the training program carried out as an initiative.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey