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. 2021 Jul;57(3):1187-1194.
doi: 10.1111/ppc.12673. Epub 2020 Nov 1.

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

Jeongwoon Yang  1 , Sungjae Kim  2
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Effects of a nonviolent communication-based training program for inpatient alcoholics in South Korea

Jeongwoon Yang et al. Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2021 Jul.

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.

Keywords: abstinence self-efficacy; alcoholics; anger; empathy; nonviolent communication.

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