Objective: Burn injuries and their complications are considered the major health problems throughout the world as it has a negative effect on function of the burned part that result in psychological disturbance as depression, anxiety, irritability, body image dissatisfaction and post-traumatic stress disorder are common in burn patients that associated with adverse out comes including poor quality of life (QOL), low self-esteem, stigmatization and increase mortality. This study aimed to investigate the effect of self-care nursing intervention model on self-esteem and quality of life among burn patients. Methods: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized. The study was conducted at burn unit of emergency hospital, Menoufia University at Menoufia governorate, Egypt. A convenience sample of 34 adult patients (one group pre/post test) with 2 nd degree burn and exposed to self care nursing intervention model that include (self-care requisites, stress management techniques and strategies for improving self esteem) in addition to routine hospital care. Three tools were used to fulfill: Tool I: Burn assessment tool, Tool II: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Tool III: World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) scale. Results: The main findings of the study there was statistically significant improvement of self-care knowledge related to burn management after implementing self-care model. There was statistically significant improvement of self-esteem and QOL among burn patients post-intervention than pre-intervention. Conclusions: The overall findings in the present study revealed that implementing self-care nursing intervention model at burn unit was effective when providing care as it encouraged patient to be an active participant in care and had a significant improvement of self-care management, self-esteem and QOL among burn patients. Recommendations: The self-care theory has shown to be the basis when providing nursing care as it helps in promoting therapeutic communication and trust relationship between the patient and the nurse so that encourage nurses to work and providing care with nursing theories.
Background: Internship nursing student's mental health was typically poor during the epidemic, particularly anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorders which should be handled with assistance and intervention. This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of Dialectical behavior therapy -based intervention on the psychological impacts of Covid-19 among internship nursing students. Method: A total of 260 Internship Nursing Students (Study group) were received a dialectical behavior therapy intervention session for four weeks. This group was compared with 260 Internship Nursing Students (Control group) without (DBT) intervention sessions. Tool one A structured Interviewing Questionnaire, Tool two: Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Tool three: Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale, and Tool four: The Impact of Event Scale (IES) were used in this study. This study was carried out at the Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University. A quasiexperimental research design two groups (Study and control group) was utilized. Results: There were no significant differences in total score of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress subscales between the study and control group before the (DBT) intervention sessions while after the (DBT) intervention sessions the study group's anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress total scores were significantly lower than the control group. Conclusion: During the epidemic prevention and control, dialectical behavior therapy can successfully decrease the anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress of the Internship Nursing students. Recommendations: DBT therapy may be implemented in the future in school psychological counselling to help college students cope with unpleasant emotions. Furthermore, it can aid in the regulation of emotions and better satisfy the psychological demands of medical and nursing students as well as college psychological counselling development needs.
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