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. 2023 May 12;2023(5):CD002892. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD002892.pub6

Foji 2020.

Study characteristics
Methods Study design: randomised controlled trial
Study grouping: parallel group
Participants Baseline characteristics
Emotional intelligence training
  • Age (mean ± SD): NR

  • Sex (N (% female)): 52 (84%)

  • Sample size: 62

  • Years of experience (mean ± SD): NR


Control (no intervention)
  • Age (mean ± SD): NR

  • Sex (N (% female)): 60 (82%)

  • Sample size: 73

  • Years of experience (mean ± SD): NR


Overall
  • Age (mean ± SD): NR

  • Sex (N (% female)): 112 (83%)

  • Sample size: 135

  • Years of experience (mean ± SD): NR


Included criteria: NR
Excluded criteria: people who have not already received any training on the topic of research. If a person has already been trained, the results of the study will be affected whether the score obtained from the study is present or not? Do not use anti‐anxiety and tranquilizers during the study period. Drug use could interfere with the outcome (due to sleepiness and lack of consciousness) (either at the training stage or the completion stage of the response). No night shift before the night before the tests. Fatigue caused by night shift could interfere with completing the questionnaire or understanding the training sessions. [4] To commit to attend all or more than half of the meetings. Pregnant nurses were excluded or nurses with underlying diseases (blood pressure, diabetes, etc.) were excluded.
Pretreatment: NR
Compliance rate: NR
Response rate: NR
Type of healthcare worker: exclusively nurses
Interventions Intervention characteristics
Workplace Health Promotion Program
  • Type of the intervention: Intervention type 1 ‐ to focus one’s attention on the experience of stress

  • Description of the intervention: The training program in this study is based on a training package of emotional intelligence,[9] implemented during 6 sessions of 2 h, 2 days a week. The related experts did training in two repetitive periods (two 6‑session courses). The content of the program for each session was as follows: group and members’ referrals with each other, familiarity with the method of work, learning and discussing emotional intelligence and its components, understanding the concept of emotional self‑regulation, expressing emotions, attachments and ways of changing perceptions.

  • The number of sessions: 6

  • Duration of each session on average: 2 hours

  • Duration of the entire intervention: 3 weeks

  • Duration of the entire intervention short vs long: Short

  • Intervention deliverer: Experts

  • Intervention form: Group, face‐to‐face


Control (no intervention)
  • Type of the intervention: NA

  • Description of the intervention: NA

  • The number of sessions: NA

  • Duration of each session on average: NA

  • Duration of the entire intervention: NA

  • Duration of the entire intervention short vs long: NA

  • Intervention deliverer: NA

  • Intervention form: NA

Outcomes General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)
  • Outcome type: ContinuousOutcome

Identification Sponsorship source: NR
Country: Iran
Setting: Hospital
Comments: NR
Authors name: Dr. Razieh Khosrorad
Institution: Department of Health Education, School of Health, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran. Educational Neuroscience Research Center, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran.
Email: rkhosrorad@yahoo. com
Address: NR
Time period: NR
Notes GHQ included in analysis 1.1
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Target population of this study consist of nurses in units of Mohammad Vasei, Shahid Beheshti, and Shahidan Mobini Hospitals in Sabzevar, randomly divided into two groups and a sample of 135 people were randomly selected based on the list of sample group names and random number table
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported. 
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes High risk Participants were not blinded.
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All outcomes High risk Participants were not blinded whereas outcomes are self‐reported. 
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes Unclear risk Not reported
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Inaccessible plan number 94098 with the ethics code of IR.MEDSAB.REC.1394.51. No indication of selective reporting.
Other bias Unclear risk Response rate and compliance rate not reported.