The Effect of Online Coping Skills Training
Condition: Coping Skills
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      An announcement will be made on Whatsapp and Instagram social media accounts for the young
      people who will participate in the research, and preliminary evaluations will be taken from
      the young people who have stated that they want to participate via e-mail and who meet the
      working criteria, and randomization will be provided with a computer program. A 10-week
      coping skills training will be given to the training group from the randomly allocated
      groups. The control group will be informed about their coping skills for 1 week. Both groups
      will receive a final evaluation 10 weeks later and a follow-up evaluation 1 month after the
      last evaluation.
    

Detailed description: 
      Inclusion criteria

        -  be over 18 years old

        -  No barriers to communication

        -  Not having any health problems

        -  Getting a score of 11 or higher on the Perceived Stress Scale Exclusion criteria

        -  Being over 25 years old Being receiving a concurrent psychological treatment/therapy
           Sample Size 90 participants will be divided into two groups as intervention and control
           with the online randomization program. It is foreseen that there will be approximately
           45 young people in each group.

      research design In this study, pretest-posttest and follow-up design including control and
      training groups will be used.

      An announcement will be made on Whatsapp and Instagram social media accounts for the young
      people who will participate in the research, and preliminary evaluations will be taken from
      the young people who have stated that they want to participate via e-mail and who meet the
      working criteria, and randomization will be provided with a computer program. A 10-week
      coping skills training will be given to the training group from the randomly allocated
      groups. The control group will be informed about their coping skills for 1 week. Both groups
      will receive a final evaluation 10 weeks later and a follow-up evaluation 1 month after the
      last evaluation.

      Independent Variables of the Research Coping Skills Training Dependent Variables of the
      Research Ways of Coping with Stress Scale Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) Social Problem Solving
      Inventory- Short Form Trait Anxiety Scale Data Collection Tools The data of the research will
      be obtained with Personal Sociodemographic Information Form, Ways of Coping with Stress
      Scale, Perceived Stress Scale (PSO) and Social Problem Solving Inventory-Short Form.

      Personal Information form: It consists of questions to determine introductory features such
      as age, gender, marital status, educational status, occupation, health insurance, family
      structure.

      The Ways of Coping Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, Social Problem Solving Inventory-Short Form
      (SPSI-SF) and Trait Anxiety Scale (STAI-2) will be used in the assessments.

      Coping Skills Training

      The Coping Skills Training program will take place in a total of 10 sessions, and it is
      planned to be implemented in a way that the entire program will be completed in 10 weeks. The
      duration of each session is between 40 and 50 minutes, and it is determined as 5 minutes of
      introduction to the session, recognizing the general topics, 5 minutes of briefly summarizing
      the previous session, and the topic of the session for 30-40 minutes. In all sessions,
      reflections prepared with the power point program will be used. In the sessions,
      question-answer method, audio-visual (audio-visual) method, role-playing and performance
      feedback phases will be used when necessary. In addition to knowledge, experiences in
      education will also be emphasized and it will be possible to make comparisons with the
      subject learned in education.

      SESSION 1: Stress and the concept of stressor SESSION 2: Stress symptoms SESSION 3:
      Identifying the stressors of the individual, the methods used by the individual, the
      connection between illness and stress, positive coping methods and recognizing the problem
      solving steps.

      SESSION 4: The effects of stress and stress-related diseases SESSION 5: Asking for help,
      making a decision SESSION 6: Methods of coping with stress SESSION 7: Problem solving steps
      SESSION 8: Stress management and therapeutic changes in lifestyle (social support, goal
      setting) SESSION 9: Examination of breathing techniques SESSION 10: Examining relaxation
      techniques At the end of the 10th session, the first evaluations will be repeated. Results
      data will be collected online and automatically entered into a database.

      Statistical Method(s) SPSS statistical program will be used in statistical analysis.
      Frequency and/or mean (X) ± standard deviation (X±SD) values will be given according to the
      suitability of the socio-demographic characteristics of the individuals with the descriptive
      data. Values obtained before and after the intervention will be evaluated using the Wilcoxon
      Paired Test. Statistical significance level was accepted as p<0.05.
    

Intervention name(s): online coping skills training
Intervention type(s): Behavioral
Intervention description(s): Young people with high levels of stress were given online coping trainings. The content of this training was primarily aimed at raising awareness about stress by giving information about stress, and then information about coping methods with stress was shared and training on problem solving skills was provided.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Intervention model description: Randomized controlled trial
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary purpose: Treatment