J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs JKAPMHN Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 1225-8482 2288-4653 The Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 10.12934/jkpmhn.2015.24.2.116 Original Article Effects of Enneagram Program for Self-esteem, Interpersonal Relationships, and GAF in Psychiatric Patients Kang Mi Jung Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. Corresponding author: Kang, Mi Jung. College of Nursing, Seoul National University, 101 Daehak-ro Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea. Tel: +82-2-2072-1081, Fax: +82-2-2-2072-1081, kmj3554@naver.com 06 2015 30 06 2015 24 2 116 126 11 03 2015 16 06 2015 24 06 2015 © 2015 The Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2015 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose

The purpose of this study was to develop an enneagram program and to investigate the effects of the enneagram program on self-esteem, interpersonal relationship and GAF(Global assessment of Functioning Scale) in psychiatric patients.

 Methods

A nonequivalent control group pre-post test design was used. Participants were 46 psychiatric patients. Participants were assigned to the experimental group(n=21) or control group(n=25). The experimental group participated in the enneagram program for 12 hours through eight sessions. The control group(n=25) received a routine nursing activity program.

 Results

The experimental group that participated in the enneagram program showed higher scores for self-esteem(t=3.73, p=.001), interpersonal relationship(t=2.63, p=.012) and GAF(t=2.43, p=.019) compared to the control group.

 Conclusion

The results indicate that an enneagram program for psychiatric patients is effective in improving self-esteem, interpersonal relationship and overall functioning skills. Therefore, it is suggested that an active use of this enneagram program as a nursing intervention for psychiatric patients would be beneficial.

 Enneagram Psychiatric patient Self-esteem Interpersonal relationship GAF

This is manuscript is based on a part of the first author's doctoral dissertation from Seoul National University.

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*Fisher's exact test; Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group; OCD=Obsessive compulsive disorder.

 Homogeneity Test of Dependent Variables

Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group; RSES=Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale; RCS=Relationship Change Scale; GAF=Global Assessment of Functioning Scale.

 Comparison of the Differences of the RSES, RCS, GAF Scores between Groups

Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group; RSES=Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale; RCS=Relationship Change Scale; GAF=Global Assessment of Functioning Scale.