The Effect of Online Coping Skills Training

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.

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.

Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:

* Young people who scored 11 points or more from the Perceived Stress Scale
* 33 points or more from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
* No barriers to communication
* Not having any health problems

Exclusion Criteria:

* older than 25 years of age
* continuing any psychotherapy
* using medication