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The Effects of Biofeedback Training and Smartphone-Delivered Biofeedback Training on Resilience, Occupational Stress, and Depressive Symptoms among Abused Psychiatric Nurses
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 2905, p 2905 (2020), Volume 17, Issue 8
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Psychiatric ward (PW) nurses are at a higher risk to encounter workplace violence than are other healthcare providers, and many interventions have been developed to improve their mental health. We compared the effectiveness of biofeedback training (BT) and smartphone-delivered BT (SDBT) interventions on occupational stress, depressive symptoms, resilience, heart rate variability, and respiration rate in a sample of abused PW nurses. This was a quasi-experimental study. Structured questionnaires were administered before and six weeks after the intervention. Data were collected from April 2017 to October 2017. A total of 159 abused PW nurses were randomly assigned to BT, SDBT, and control groups, and 135 of them completed all processes of our protocol, with the study consisting of 119 females (88.1%) and 16 males (11.9%) and their age range being from 22 to 59 with the mean age of 35.61 and a standard deviation of 8.16. Compared to the controls, both the BT and the SDBT intervention groups experienced significant improvements in depressive symptoms, resilience, and respiration rate<br />and the SDBT group experienced significant reductions in occupational stress. Considering the cost, accessibility, restrictions time and space, SDBT be used as an effective intervention in people with resilience or occupational stress.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Psychological intervention
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Nurses
Psychiatric Nursing
smartphone
biofeedback training
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Occupational Stress
0302 clinical medicine
depressive symptoms
Intervention (counseling)
Adaptation, Psychological
workplace violence
medicine
Heart rate variability
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Psychiatry
resilience
media_common
030504 nursing
Workplace violence
business.industry
Depression
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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
heart rate variability
Biofeedback, Psychology
Mental health
Biofeedback training
Female
psychiatric nurses
Psychological resilience
Occupational stress
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16604601
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of environmental research and public health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ad31f3660ef93f85289d2f79ca59beb5