Journal
BMC NURSING
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-021-00761-6
Keywords
Feasibility; Cognitive behavioral stress management; Nursing education; Stress; Health promotion
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- Karlstad University
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This study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a newly developed cognitive behavioral stress management intervention for nursing students, indicating that the intervention was feasible in terms of acceptability, data collection procedures, and adherence, but encountered difficulties in recruitment capability and homework completion.
Background Stress related psychological problems are growing in nursing education and constitute an essential challenge for educators. This makes research about strategies and interventions to meet these problems important. Stress management interventions need to be tested for feasibility and acceptability, before conducting large scale RCTs. The objective of our study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a newly developed cognitive behavioral stress management intervention for nursing students. Methods Data were collected using a combination of standardized measurements and newly created questionnaires in combination with qualitative data. Our data included recruitment capability, sample characteristics, intervention acceptability and preliminary evaluation of participant psychological changes. Results Findings suggested that the feasibility of conducting a full-scale evaluation was confirmed for intervention acceptability, data collection procedures, and adherence. However, difficulties relating to recruitment capability and homework were identified. All aspects taken together, the intervention was found feasible and acceptable to nursing students, and thus a potential stress management intervention for the nurse education context. Conclusions Overall, this study provides an insight into the challenges and complexities of developing and evaluating a new brief cognitive behavioral based stress management training intervention in a nurse education setting.
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