The Effects of Logotherapy Based Psychosocial Support Program on Nursing Students on the Meaning of Life and Life Satisfaction

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This study is a psychosocial intervention program designed to intervene in the meaning of life and existential problems and life satisfaction in nursing students, especially during the epidemic. In the short term, it expects that students will gain awareness, especially in areas such as life satisfaction, anxiety, aimlessness, the meaning of life, deterioration in functionality, and in the long term, the individual's ultimate issues (death, loneliness, meaning and responsibility) and provide a perspective that can cope with the problems that may arise in these areas. Based on all these, it is aimed to raise awareness of the meaning of life and life satisfaction in nursing students, who constitute a young population, with the existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program. H1. The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program will affect the experimental group's meaning and purpose of life scale scores. H2. The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program will affect the experimental group's life satisfaction scale scores. H3. After the existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program, there will be a significant difference between the experimental and control groups' meaning and purpose of life scores. H4. After the existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program, there will be a significant difference between the experimental and control groups' life satisfaction scores.

Official Title
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The Effects of Existential Approach and Logotherapy Based Psychosocial Support Program on Nursing Students in Period of Pandemic on the Meaning of Life and Life Satisfaction

Conditions
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Meaning of Life and Life Satisfaction

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Completed mental health and psychiatric nursing course Agreeing to participate as a result of the research announcement No acute psychiatric problem Those who have not lost their first-degree relative due to Covid-19 Exclusion Criteria: Having an acute psychiatric problem Those who lost their first-degree relative due to Covid-19

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 26 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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| Experimental: Experimental Group<br>The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program intervention | Behavioral: The existential approach and logotherapy-based psychosocial support program<br>* Existential Approach and Logotherapy Based Support Program, which raises awareness about the meaning and purpose of the individual's life, enables them to produce solutions to the sense of meaninglessness, anxiety, feeling of emptiness, and many other problems, and develops different perspectives.The content of the program is base on existential analysis and logotherapy. The program lasted for eight weeks, with the first and last session of the scale applications. Additional sessions were set for each session where the aims and objectives of the session could not achieve. A session lasting at least 50 minutes were held each week.<br>|
| No Intervention: Control Group<br> | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
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| Group Difference-Meaning and Purpose | A statistically significant difference was determined in terms of the last measurement MPLS-total scores according to the groups. | 10 weeks | 
| Between Groups Difference-Life Satisfaction | A statistically significant difference was found in terms of the last measurement life satisfaction scale scores according to the groups. | 10 weeks | 
| In Group Difference-Life Satisfaction | A statistically significant difference was found in the first measurement - last measurement life satisfaction scale scores of the experimental group. | 10 weeks | 
| In Group Difference-Meaning and Purpose | A statistically significant difference was found in the first measurement - last measurement MPLS- total scores of the experimental group. | 10 weeks |