Effects of a nonviolent communication‐based training program for inpatient alcoholics in South Korea

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.

An online communication skills training program for nursing students: A quasi-experimental study

“…Next, the NVC-CST program did not affect the participants’ anger expression, which is inconsistent with previous results showing that NVC positively changed the anger expression of inpatients receiving treatment for alcohol use disorder [ 23 ]. This may be attributable to differences in the study samples.…”

“…Additionally, instructing participants to write a short testimony of their experiences while completing the given assignments helped them recognize the positive changes in their conversations, which further strengthened their motivation for learning. In a previous study, engaging in NVC increased one’s self-expression and understanding of others [ 23 ], which is consistent with the results of the present study.…”

“…Self-efficacy refers to confidence in resolving a difficult situation or a challenging task [ 23 ]. Our results are consistent with previous findings that hospital staff who underwent a program that integrated mindfulness and NVC showed marked improvements in self-efficacy [ 45 ].…”

“…Communication skills can be improved through practice and training [ 23 ]. Effective communication skills involve clearly delivering one’s opinion and accepting the other person’s opinion [ 24 ], and nonviolent communication (NVC) encompasses these factors.…”

Meta‐analysis of associations between empathy and alcohol use and problems in clinical and non‐clinical samples

“…Indeed, empathy is a modifiable socio‐cognitive factor [ 61 ], and interventions that improve empathy have been shown to reduce a range of problematic behavior, including intimate partner violence [ 62 ], bullying [ 63 ] and aggression [ 64 ]. In fact, a recent study found that an intervention that increased empathy resulted in better alcohol abstinence self‐efficacy in individuals with AUD [ 65 ]. Therefore, treatments that aim to improve empathic abilities in individuals with AUD may result in better short‐ and long‐term outcomes related to both interpersonal problems and alcohol use.…”