Effects of a nonviolent communication‐based training program for inpatient alcoholics in South Korea. Issue 3 (1st November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yang, Jeongwoon; Kim, Sungjae
• Is Part Of: Perspectives in psychiatric care. Volume 57:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 1187
• Page End: 1194
• Publication Date: 2020-11-01
• Subjects: abstinence self‐efficacy -- alcoholics -- anger -- empathy -- nonviolent communication; Psychiatric nursing -- Periodicals; Psychiatric nursing -- Research -- Periodicals; 616.890231
• DOI: 10.1111/ppc.12673
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-5990

Abstract

Abstract: Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate a communication skills program based on nonviolent communication targeted on inpatient alcoholics at the alcoholics specialized ward. Design and Methods: The sample for this mixed methods quasi‐experimental study comprised 47 patients who were hospitalized in the alcoholic wards of two psychiatric hospitals in South Korea. Findings: The program effectively improved participants' empathy, anger expression, communication competence, and alcohol abstinence self‐efficacy ( p < .001). Practice implications: This program could be implemented in community‐based alcoholic care with the aim of preventing relapse and serve as the basis for developing similar programs for family members.