Integrating Mindfulness Into Nursing Education: A Pilot Nonrandomized Controlled Trial
There is an increasing base of evidence that mindfulness-based interventions are effective in reducing stress in nurses. Little is known about the potential effect of mindfulness in fostering nursing education. The present article reports the preliminary data of a pilot study aimed to introduce a mi...
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| Published in: | International journal of stress management Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 93 - 100 |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Educational Publishing Foundation
01-02-2020
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| Summary: | There is an increasing base of evidence that mindfulness-based interventions are effective in reducing stress in nurses. Little is known about the potential effect of mindfulness in fostering nursing education. The present article reports the preliminary data of a pilot study aimed to introduce a mindfulness-based education program for nursing students. Such a program, namely, the Self-Aware Nurse Project, aspires to promote mindful compassion and reduce burnout in nurses. The study is a nonrandomized controlled trial with pre- and postassessment. The control group attended a standard course, and the experimental group attended our mindfulness-based education program. We enrolled nursing students (n = 82) attending two concurrent classes of the same School of Nursing at the University of Florence. The program is a mindfulness-based education program that progressively focuses on three different dimensions (personal, relational, and organizational) of nursing experience, and integrates standard mindfulness practices together with specifically designed meditative exercises and psychoeducation. The results highlight that changes between pre- and postassessment in the experimental group, and between control and experimental group in the postassessment exhibit medium to very large effect sizes among outcome measures (Cohen's d ranging from 0.57 to 1.25). The described mindfulness-based education program reports a significant increase of dispositional mindfulness and a significant decrease of perceived burnout. Further studies are needed to overcome the main limitations of the study: a low sample size and the absence of randomization. |
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| ISSN: | 1072-5245 1573-3424 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/str0000126 |