title: Investigating the effect of emotional intelligence education on baccalaureate nursing students' emotional intelligence scores.
abstract: Nursing students, particularly at the time of entering clinical education, experience a great deal of stress and emotion typically related to their educational and clinical competence. Emotional intelligence is known to be one of the required skills to effectively cope with such feelings. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of training on first-year nursing students' levels of emotional intelligence. This was a quasi-experiment study in which 69 first-year nursing students affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences were assigned to either the control or the experimental groups. The study intervention included of an emotional intelligence educational program offered in eight two-hour sessions for eight subsequent weeks. In total, 66 students completed the study. The study groups did not differ significantly in terms of emotional intelligence scores before and after educational program. Although the educational program did not have an effect on students' emotional intelligence scores, this study finding can be explained. Limited time for exercising the acquired knowledge and skills may explain the non-significant findings. Moreover, our participants were exclusively first-year students who had no clinical experience and hence, might have felt no real need to learn emotional intelligence skills.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics & Mathematics, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Rashid-Yasemi Street, Vali'asr Avenue, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: jam_orak@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Roohangiz Jamshidi
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Orak
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical-surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Rashid Yasemi St, Valiasr Ave, Tehran 193954798, Iran. Electronic address: Farahani.ma@iums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Mansoureh Ashghali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Farahani
authors.affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: fateme.ghofrani@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Fatemeh Ghofrani
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Kelishami
authors.affiliation: Department of psychiatric nursing, Faculty Member of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Rashid Yasemi St, Valiasr Ave, Tehran 1996713883, Iran. Electronic address: nseyedfatemi@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Naima
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Seyedfatemi
authors.affiliation: University of Al-Kharazmi, Iran. Electronic address: sb_2042@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Banihashemi
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia, School of Nursing, T201-2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5, Canada. Electronic address: farinazhavaei@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Farinaz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Havaei
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Education; Emotional intelligence; Nursing student