Effects of an Emotional Education Program on Prisoners: An Experimental Study.

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101234500 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1939-3938 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 15563693 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Forensic Nurs Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: January/March 2013- : Hagerstown, MD : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Original Publication: Pitman, NJ : International Association of Forensic Nurses, c2005-

Emotional Intelligence* ; Nursing Care*/methods ; Prisoners*/education ; Prisoners*/psychology ; Psychotherapy*/methods; Education/methods ; Health Care Surveys ; Humans ; Mental Health ; Prisons ; Quality of Life ; Spain

Background: Emotional education has beneficial effects on physical and/or emotional health, resulting in a better quality of life. Thus, it is beneficial to provide prisoners with emotional education, because of the difficulties they often have, to attain these benefits.
Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the effects of a nursing intervention program in emotional education for incarcerated persons.
Methods: Experimental study with pretest-posttest repeated measures with a control group was conducted at a penitentiary center in the southeast of Spain. Forty-eight prisoners participated in the emotional education intervention program, and another 48 were part of the control group. The emotional intelligence questionnaire 24-item Trait Meta-Mood Scale, the resilience scale Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Rathus Assertiveness Questionnaire, and the 36-item Short Form Health Survey were utilized.
Findings: The intragroup, preintervention and postintervention comparisons in the study group showed improvements in self-esteem (p = 0.00, r = 0.51), resilience (p = 0.00, r = 0.42), assertiveness (p = 0.00, r = 0.46), and emotional intelligence in its dimensions of repair (p = 0.00, r = 0.32) and clarity (p = 0.02, r = 0.22) as well as in most of the quality of life dimensions. Significant intergroup differences were also found in all of these variables, except for attention and emotional clarity dimensions.
Conclusion: The intervention improved the socioemotional health and quality of life of the prisoners, highlighting the importance of these interventions to be performed by the nursing personnel on a regular basis as a programmed activity within prisons.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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