The impact of teaching psychological welfare on marital satisfaction and self-efficacy in nurses.
Objective:Proper psychological interventions for enhancing public health and mental welfare in nurses are of great importance. This study intended to explore the influence of the teaching psychological welfare on marital satisfaction and self-efficacy in nurses of Imam Khomeini hospital.Methodology:The method of the present study was semi-experimental with a pre-test post-test design and a control group. Hence, 24 nurses were selected from Imam Khomeini hospital, by using convenience sampling, and they were divided into two groups: experiment and monitoring. By using a 47-questions marital satisfaction questionnaire and a 17-questions general self-efficacy questionnaire, both groups were pre-tested. Then the test group, received lessons on psychological welfare within ten sessions, but the control group received no interventions. Afterwards, both groups were post-tested, and the data collected were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics methods through SPSS software.Findings:Findings showed that teaching psychological welfare significantly increased marital satisfaction and self-efficacy in nurses (p < 0.001).Conclusion:From this research, it was concluded that teaching psychological welfare is an effective strategy for those with risky jobs like nurses, because it is highly efficient, especially when it is performed in groups, because it is cheap, and because it is acceptable by different working people.
Psychometric Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Iran.
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Sabzianpoor
General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Semnan, Iran.
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Ghazanfari Amrai
General Psychology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
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Jalali Farahani
Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Chaloos Branch, Iran.
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Soheila
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Payame Noor, Tehran, Iran.
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Mahdavi
Student Health Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Iran.
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Rahmani
marital satisfaction; nurses; psychological welfare; self-efficacy