NCT05310656

Evaluation of the Impact of the Empowerment Program on Sheltered Battered Women

The Effect of Mindfulness Based Empowerment Program on Self-Compassion, Self-Esteem and Ways of Coping With Stress of Women Experienced Violence: A Randomized-Controlled Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Elif Güzide Emirza · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to increase the level of self-compassion, improve their self-esteem and cope with stress so that women who are exposed to violence can fight violence more effectively, protect their physical and mental health, find the strength they need to direct their lives, and do all these through self-awareness, compassion and kindness. It is aimed to gain coping skills. For this purpose, a mindfulness-based strengthening program will be implemented.

Detailed description

When the statistics on violence against women in the world are analyzed, it is seen that 16-25% of women are physically abused by their husbands, boyfriends or fiancees, and one out of every five women is exposed to this type of violence in their own home. It has been concluded that the approaches applied in intervention studies for women exposed to violence affect women's mental health positively, increase their self-esteem, improve their coping, problem-solving and decision-making skills, reduce their anger and stress levels, and increase their self-efficacy. In addition, it has been determined that mindfulness-based interventions applied to women who have been subjected to violence strengthen awareness and self-compassion, improve sense of belonging, compassion and problem-solving skills, reduce self-blame, depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, increase psychological well-being, and reduce PTSD symptoms. With the continuation of exposure to violence, women are insufficient to change their feelings and lives in a positive way, they are affected by the negative and judgmental attitudes of their environment, they struggle with all the negative effects of violence throughout their lives, they experience physical and mental disorders due to violence, and therefore they resort to harmful coping methods. In this sense, the aim of the study is to determine the effect of mindfulness-based empowerment program on self-compassion, self-esteem and ways of coping with stress in women exposed to violence. The hypotheses of this study: In the mindfulness-based empowerment program applied to women who have been subjected to violence, H0-1: There is no difference between the intervention group and the control group in terms of self-compassion. H0-2: There is no difference between the intervention group and the control group in terms of self-esteem. H0-3: There is no difference between the intervention group and the control group in terms of coping styles with stress.

Conditions

• Battered Women
• Violence, Domestic
• Mindfulness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Based Empowerment Programme	Mindfulness Based Strengthening Program consists of 8 sessions, once a week. Each session has specific goals and objectives, and each session also has a separate theme along with its subject. The subject of the program sessions is as follows: 1st session; Getting to know, explaining the operation plan of the program, defining violence against women and its causes, 2nd session; Emotions and Perceptions, session 3; Being in the Body and Developing Self-Esteem; Session 4, Stress and Meeting Stress with Conscious Awareness; Session 5, The Case of Violence and the Meanings We Ascribe; Session 6, Aware Communication and Conflict Resolution; Session 7, Self-Care and Self-Compassion; Session 8 is Ending the Empowerment Program, Farewell, and a New Beginning. Each session is planned to last an average of 90-120 minutes. Mindfulness teachings and practices will be applied in the content of the program.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-07-18
• Completion: 2022-08-18
• First posted: 2022-04-05
• Last updated: 2022-04-05