Clinical trial · Interventional
Emotion Regulation Skill Program: Impact on Emotion Regulation, Experiential Avoidance & Compassion Fatigue
The Effect of Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation on Emotion Regulation, Experiential Avoidance and Compassion Fatigue of Oncology Nurses
NCT06766682CI-TRIAL-00118911completedN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
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
Conditions (4)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compassion Fatigue | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Emotion Regulation | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Emotion Regulation Abilities | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Experiential Avoidance | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation
- description
- 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.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: The Skill Development Program for Emotion Regulation
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control Group
- description
- 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.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Change in Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * 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. Exclusion Criteria: * 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
References
Publications (9)
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- RESULTFigley, C. R. (2013). Compassion fatigue: Coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatized. Routledge.
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- RESULTLincoln, 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
- RESULTYiğit, 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
- RESULTZheng 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
- RESULTLyu 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
- RESULTKostka 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