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Research and educational resources about psychological resilience.
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Use this Psychological Resilience collection to compare research questions, settings, and nursing implications across 25 reviewed records. Start with the original source and limitations before carrying a finding into teaching or practice.
A questionnaire study of 218 second-year nursing students in Murcia found significant relationships among resilience, academic burnout and psychological health. Regression analysis indicated that resilience moderated...
This dissertation explores how first-generation nursing students who fail and then repeat a nursing course draw on resilience, using the 'push through' framework, to succeed and transform through the experience. Using...
In a survey of 788 nursing interns, 24.7% screened positive for anxiety and 10.5% for depression; psychological resilience partially mediated (53.9%) the protective link between social support and fewer negative...
A 2024 study of 682 Chinese nursing students found that maladaptive, but not adaptive, perfectionism was linked to feelings of relative deprivation, largely through heightened interpersonal sensitivity, with resilience..
Cancer nurses across Cheshire and Mersey showed improving average depression scores over six months of the pandemic recovery period, but 32% still reported severe depression at 6 months. Professional identity, peer...
In a retrospective study of 150 children recovering from upper extremity fracture surgery, an SOP-based (standard operating procedure) comfort care model was linked to significantly better joint mobility, joint...
In a March 2025 survey of 122 UAE nursing students using the DAP-R and FATCOD scales, only 26.2% reported high comfort with end-of-life care, and death avoidance (r = -0.506) was the strongest predictor of lower...
This Canadian rapid scoping review of 24 reports finds that Black children and youth in Canada build resilience through individual, relational, and community-level supports like matrifocal networks and spirituality,...
This reflective case paper traces Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing's 40-year journey from a community college to a full university, describing how faculty built a culture of scholarship using Boyer's four...
Story Based Learning (SBL) is a Canadian-developed nursing teaching model that blends narrative pedagogy, case method teaching, and problem-based learning into a circular, six-phase process for working through practice..
In a study of 446 Chinese neuro-oncology nurses, 36.4% reported missed nursing care, and latent profile analysis identified three distinct risk groups. A better practice environment and greater psychological capital...
A pilot study of the 8-week virtual STEP psychotherapy program for 35 Ontario nurses and PSWs found strong feasibility and acceptability, plus early improvements in burnout and work functioning at three months, though...
In a study of 370 first-year Egyptian nursing students, higher self-control was linked to lower learned helplessness, mainly because it reduced how catastrophically students appraised failure (atychiphobia), not just...
A National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded research plan to study how moral injury and social and environmental factors shape substance use, mental health, and suicidality among low-wage US healthcare workers. It...
A National Cancer Institute R01 proposal for a 200-caregiver trial of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers (MCP-C) versus supportive psychotherapy; an earlier pilot found it feasible and helpful, but...
A funded phase 1 protocol proposing to test whether a chaplain-delivered, compassion-based team intervention (CCSH-TI) is feasible and acceptable for improving psychological safety and reducing burnout at a cancer...
A think-aloud study built a five-stage cognitive learning model of how nurses develop clinical reasoning from novice to expert.
A small qualitative study found nursing and pharmacy students valued interprofessional simulation and shed stereotypes about each other.
Health Information Systems (HIS) have become critical infrastructure for improving healthcare delivery, particularly in developing countries. However, persistent digital disruptions such as unreliable connectivity,...
School nurses face escalating job demands driven by increasing student health complexity, chronic condition management, and expanding public health responsibilities. Often serving as the sole healthcare professional...
This study found that Emotional Schema Therapy (EST) and differentiation training both reduced emotional divorce among women. EST was more effective than differentiation training in lowering ED rates, with significant...
This study found significant links between perfectionism, early maladaptive schemas, attachment styles, self-esteem, and body image concerns among female cosmetic surgery applicants. A model where self-esteem mediates...
This study found that pregnant women who listened to relaxing music experienced less life distress and stronger maternal-fetal attachment than a control group. The intervention involved twelve 45-50 minute sessions of...
This study found that nurses at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital had good knowledge of Failure to Rescue but moderate competence in averting it. Crucially, there was a significant link between positive...
This study found anxious-avoidant attachment styles predict higher emotional divorce in Iranian women, while spiritual intelligence predicts lower levels. Together, these factors explained significant variance in...
