Investigating the effect of online motivational interviewing on Self-efficacy and Family emotional psychological atmosphere in Adolescents with self-harming behaviors

Self-harm in adolescents refers to deliberate self-harming behaviors that lack any predetermined intrinsic motivation or intention and have many human and financial health costs for human societies. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of online motivational interviewing on self-efficacy and Family emotional psychological atmosphere in adolescents whith self-harming behaviors during the outbreak of Corona epidemic.

The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical population of the study included all adolescents with self-harming behaviors who referred to counseling centers in Kashmar in 2020. Forty adolescents were selected based on voluntary and available sampling and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. First, both groups responded to self-efficacy questionnaire, family emotional psychological atmosphere (pre-test). The experimental group then underwent 8 sessions of Miller motivational interview online. Finally, both groups responded to the research tools again (post-test). The collected data were analyzed by SPSS-22 software and inferential statistics of analysis of covariance.

The results of the comparison of efficiency post-test, family emotional psychological atmosphere in two groups of adolescents with self-harming behaviors, by controlling the effect of pre-test, indicates that after participation of this group of adolescents in treatment sessions, efficiency scores and perception There was a significant change in their emotional psychological atmosphere compared to the control group.

Online motivational interview is effective on family emotional psychological atmosphere and self-efficacy of adolescents with self-harming behaviors.