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Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond
BACKGROUND: The public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in mental and psychological ramifications on the healthcare professionals. The pre-licensure nursing students found themselves not only fighting against the baneful virus but also weak ego resilience. At this point, enr...
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The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of African Institute of Mathematical Sciences / Next Einstein Initiative.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36506753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01472 |
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author | Eweida, Rasha Salah Rashwan, Zohour Ibrahim Khonji, Leena Mohammad Shalhoub, Abdullah Abdulrahman Bin Ibrahim, Nashwa |
author_facet | Eweida, Rasha Salah Rashwan, Zohour Ibrahim Khonji, Leena Mohammad Shalhoub, Abdullah Abdulrahman Bin Ibrahim, Nashwa |
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description | BACKGROUND: The public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in mental and psychological ramifications on the healthcare professionals. The pre-licensure nursing students found themselves not only fighting against the baneful virus but also weak ego resilience. At this point, enriching the pre-licensure nursing students with psychological first aid (PFA) could help them to recover from the feeling of psychological distress and improve their resilience capacity to encounter any upcoming outbreaks. METHODS: A quasi-experimental two groups, a pre-post-test study was used in which sixty-four pre-licensure nursing students completed a baseline survey which revealed high levels of psychological distress and low resilience capacity due to the COVID-19 crisis. The study group engaged in the Psychological First- aid Intervention (PFA) at the end of the clinical practicum course period, while the comparison group received routine psychological support. RESULTS: A significant reduction in the psychological distress levels among students in the PFA group (F(ET)=7.83, P = 0. 001). Likewise, significant improvements in the students' resilience capacity level immediately after the intervention (F(ET)=3.34, P = 0.019) and during the two-month follow-up (F(ET)=12.94, P = 0. 001). The implementation of PFA enhanced the pre-licensure nursing students' psychological health status and resilience capacity levels after their clinical training amid the ambiance of the COVID-19 crisis. CONCLUSION: The PFA effectively fostered the pre-licensure nursing students’ recovery from the COVID-19 related- psychological distress and improve their resilience capacity. The application of RAPID model is recommended to reduce stress and prevent burnout among novice and future nurses who show signs of psychological exhaustion. |
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spelling | pubmed-97198732022-12-05 Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond Eweida, Rasha Salah Rashwan, Zohour Ibrahim Khonji, Leena Mohammad Shalhoub, Abdullah Abdulrahman Bin Ibrahim, Nashwa Sci Afr Article BACKGROUND: The public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in mental and psychological ramifications on the healthcare professionals. The pre-licensure nursing students found themselves not only fighting against the baneful virus but also weak ego resilience. At this point, enriching the pre-licensure nursing students with psychological first aid (PFA) could help them to recover from the feeling of psychological distress and improve their resilience capacity to encounter any upcoming outbreaks. METHODS: A quasi-experimental two groups, a pre-post-test study was used in which sixty-four pre-licensure nursing students completed a baseline survey which revealed high levels of psychological distress and low resilience capacity due to the COVID-19 crisis. The study group engaged in the Psychological First- aid Intervention (PFA) at the end of the clinical practicum course period, while the comparison group received routine psychological support. RESULTS: A significant reduction in the psychological distress levels among students in the PFA group (F(ET)=7.83, P = 0. 001). Likewise, significant improvements in the students' resilience capacity level immediately after the intervention (F(ET)=3.34, P = 0.019) and during the two-month follow-up (F(ET)=12.94, P = 0. 001). The implementation of PFA enhanced the pre-licensure nursing students' psychological health status and resilience capacity levels after their clinical training amid the ambiance of the COVID-19 crisis. CONCLUSION: The PFA effectively fostered the pre-licensure nursing students’ recovery from the COVID-19 related- psychological distress and improve their resilience capacity. The application of RAPID model is recommended to reduce stress and prevent burnout among novice and future nurses who show signs of psychological exhaustion. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of African Institute of Mathematical Sciences / Next Einstein Initiative. 2023-03 2022-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9719873/ /pubmed/36506753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01472 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Eweida, Rasha Salah Rashwan, Zohour Ibrahim Khonji, Leena Mohammad Shalhoub, Abdullah Abdulrahman Bin Ibrahim, Nashwa Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond |
title | Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond |
title_full | Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond |
title_fullStr | Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond |
title_short | Psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst COVID-19 crisis and beyond |
title_sort | psychological first aid intervention: rescue from psychological distress and improving the pre-licensure nursing students’ resilience amidst covid-19 crisis and beyond |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719873/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36506753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01472 |
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